THE ADVENTURES OF PETER COTTONTAIL

By Thornton W. Burgess

Author of "The Adventures of Reddy Fox"
"Old Mother West Wind," etc.

With Illustrations by Harrison Cady

Boston
Little, Brown, And Company
1917

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CONTENTS

THE ADVENTURES OF PETER COTTONTAIL

I. PETER RABBIT DECIDES TO CHANGE HIS NAME

II. PETER FINDS A NAME

III. THERE'S NOTHING LIKE THE OLD NAME AFTER ALL

IV. PETER RABBIT FOOLS JIMMY SKUNK

V. REDDY POX GETS INTO TROUBLE

VI. REDDY FOOLS BOWSER THE HOUND

VII. REDDY INVITES PETER RABBIT TO TAKE A WALK

VIII. PETER RABBIT GETS AN EARLY BREAKFAST

IX. REDDY FOX GETS A SCARE

X. PETER HAS ANOTHER GREAT LAUGH

XI. SHADOW THE WEASEL GETS LOST

XII. THE PLOT OF TWO SCAMPS

XIII. REDDY FOX COMES TO LIFE

XIV. PETER RABBIT IN A TIGHT PLACE

XV. JOHNNY CHUCK HELPS PETER

XVI. REDDY FOX TELLS A WRONG STORY

XVII. REDDY ALMOST GETS PETER RABBIT

XVIII. JOHNNY CHUCK PREPARES FOR WINTER

XIX. PETER RABBIT GETS ANOTHER SURPRISE

XX. PETER TRIES OL' MISTAH BUZZARD

XI. HAPPY JACK SQUIRREL IS TO BUSY TO TALK

XXII. UNC' BILLY POSSUM EXPLAINS THINGS

XXIII. PETER RABBIT HAS A BRIGHT IDEA

XXIV. PETER PREPARES FOR A LONG SLEEP

XXV. UNC' BILLY POSSUM PLAYS A JOKE

XXVI. PETER RABBIT LEARNS HIS LESSON

THE ADVENTURES OF PETER COTTONTAIL

I. PETER RABBIT DECIDES TO CHANGE HIS NAME

PETER RABBIT! Peter Rabbit! I don't see what Mother Nature ever gave me such a common sounding name as that for. People laugh at me, but if I had a fine sounding name they wouldn't laugh. Some folks say that a name doesn't amount to anything, but it does. If I should do some wonderful thing, nobody would think anything of it. No, Sir, nobody would think anything of it at all just because—why just because it was done by Peter Rabbit."

Peter was talking out loud, but he was talking to himself. He sat in the dear Old Briar-patch with an ugly scowl on his usually happy face. The sun was shining, the Merry Little Breezes of Old Mother West Wind were dancing over the Green Meadows, the birds were singing, and happiness, the glad, joyous happiness of springtime, was everywhere but in Peter Rabbit's heart. There there seeded to be no room for anything but discontent. And such foolish discontent—discontent with his name! And yet, do you know,