CHAPTER XXXII

PETER RABBIT'S NURSERY


With home, the home you call your own,
It really doesn't matter where,
There is no place, in all the world,
That ever will or can compare.
Peter Rabbit.

The news was out at last, thanks to Blacky the Crow. Peter Rabbit had a
family! Yes, Sir, Peter Rabbit had a family! Right away the Old Briar-
patch became the most interesting place on the Green Meadows to all the
little people who live there and in the near-by Green Forest. Of course
all of Peter's friends called as soon as ever they could. They found
Peter looking very proud, and very important, and very happy. Mrs. Peter
looked just as proud, and just as happy, but she also looked very
anxious. You see, while she was very glad to have so many friends call,
there were also other visitors. That is, they were not exactly callers,
but they hung around the outside of the Old Briar-patch, and they seemed
quite as much interested as the friends who really called. Indeed, they
seemed more interested.

Who were they? Why, Reddy Fox was one. Then there was Old Man Coyote,
also Redtail the Hawk and Digger the Badger, and just at dusk Hooty the
Owl. They all seemed very much interested indeed, but every time little