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Climbed upon a wheelbarrow, and peeped over.

The first thing he saw was Mr. McGregor hoeing onions. His back was
turned towards Peter and beyond him was the gate!

Peter got down very quietly off the wheel-barrow and started running
as fast as he could go, along a straight walk behind some black
currant bushes. Mr. McGregor caught sight of him at the corner, but
Peter did not care. He slipped underneath the gate and was safe at
last in the wood outside the garden.

Mr. McGregor hung up the little jacket and the shoes for a
scare-crow to frighten the blackbirds. [Illustration]

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Peter never stopped running or looked behind him

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Till he got home to the big fir-tree.

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He was so tired that he flopped down upon the nice soft sand on the