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Speaker 1: Welcome to sleep tight Stories. The Tale of Peter Rabbit.

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Speaker 1: Once upon a time there were four little rabbits, and

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Speaker 1: their names were Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail, and Peter. They lived

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Speaker 1: with their mother in a sandbank underneath the root of

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Speaker 1: a very big fir tree. Now, my DearS, said old

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Speaker 1: missus Rabbit, one morning, you may go into the fields

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Speaker 1: or down the lane, but don't go into mister McGregor's garden.

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Speaker 1: Your father had an accident there. He was put in

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Speaker 1: a pie by missus McGregor. Now run along and don't

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Speaker 1: get into mischief. I am going out. Then old missus

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Speaker 1: Rabbit took a basket and her umbrella and went through

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Speaker 1: the wood to the baker's. She bought a loaf of

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Speaker 1: brown bread and five currant buds. Flopsy, Mopsy and Cottontail, who.

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Speaker 2: Were good little bunnies.

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Speaker 1: Went down the lane to gather blackberries. But Peter, who

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Speaker 1: was very naughty, ran straight away to mister McGregor's garden

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Speaker 1: and squeezed under the gate. First he ate some lettuce

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Speaker 1: and some french beans, and then he ate some radishes,

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Speaker 1: and then, feeling rather sick, he went to look for

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Speaker 1: some parsley, but round the end of a cucumber frame.

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Speaker 1: Whom should he meet but mister McGregor. Mister McGregor was

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Speaker 1: on his hands and knees planting out young cabbages. But

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Speaker 1: he jumped up and ran after Peter, waving a rake

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Speaker 1: and calling out stop faith. Peter was most dreadfully frightened.

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Speaker 1: He rushed all over the garden, for he had forgotten

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Speaker 1: the way back to the gate. He lost one of

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Speaker 1: his shoes among the cabbages, and the other shoe amongst

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Speaker 1: the potatoes. After losing them, he ran on four legs

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Speaker 1: and went faster, so that I think he might have

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Speaker 1: got away altogether if he had not unfortunately, run into

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Speaker 1: a gooseberry net and got caught by the large buttons

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Speaker 1: on his jacket. It was a blue jacket with brass buttons.

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Speaker 1: Quite new. Peter gave himself up for lost and shed

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Speaker 1: big tears, but his sobs were overheard by some friendly sparrows,

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Speaker 1: who flew to him in great excess and implored him

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Speaker 1: to exert himself. Mister McGregor came up with a sieve

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Speaker 1: which he intended to pop over the top of Peter,

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Speaker 1: but Peter wriggled out just in time, leaving his jacket

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Speaker 1: behind him. He rushed into the tool shed and jumped

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Speaker 1: into a can. It would have been a beautiful thing

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Speaker 1: to hide in if it had not had so much

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Speaker 1: water in it. Mister McGregor was quite sure that Peter

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Speaker 1: was somewhere in the tool shed, perhaps hidden underneath a

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Speaker 1: flower pot. He began to turn them over, carefully, looking

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Speaker 1: under each. Presently, Peter sneezed at two. Mister McGregor was

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Speaker 1: after him in no time and tried to put his

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Speaker 1: foot upon Peter, who jumped out of a window, upsetting

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Speaker 1: three plants. The window was too small for mister McGregor,

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Speaker 1: and he was tired of running after Peter, so he

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Speaker 1: went back to his work. Peter sat down to rest.

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Speaker 1: He was out of breath and trembling with fright, and

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Speaker 1: he had not the least idea which way to go. Also,

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Speaker 1: he was very damp from sitting in that can. After

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Speaker 1: a time he began to wander about, going lipperty lipperty,

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Speaker 1: not very fast, and looking all around. He found a

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Speaker 1: door in a wall, but it was locked, and there

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Speaker 1: was no room for a fat little rabbit to squeeze underneath.

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Speaker 1: An old mouse was running in and out over the

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Speaker 1: stone doorstep, carrying peas and beans to her family in

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Speaker 1: the wood. Peter asked her the way to the gate,

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Speaker 1: but she had such a large pea in her mouth

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Speaker 1: that she could not answer. She only shook her head

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Speaker 1: at him. Peter began to cry. Then he tried to

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Speaker 1: find his way. Strayed across the garden, and he became

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Speaker 1: more and more puzzled. Presently he came to a pond

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Speaker 1: where mister MacGregor filled his water cans. A white cat

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Speaker 1: was staring at some goldfish. She sat very, very still,

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Speaker 1: but now and then the tip of her tail twitched

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Speaker 1: as if it were alive. Peter thought it best to

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Speaker 1: go away without speaking to her. He had heard about

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Speaker 1: cats from his cousin, Little Benjamin Bunny. He went back

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Speaker 1: towards the tool shed, but suddenly, quite close to him,

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Speaker 1: he heard the noise of a hoe.

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Speaker 2: Scratch, scratch, scratch, scritch. Peter scuttered underneath the bushes, but presently,

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Speaker 2: as nothing happened, he came out and climbed upon a

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Speaker 2: wheelbarrow and peeped over.

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Speaker 1: The first thing he saw was mister McGregor hoeing onions.

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Speaker 1: His back was turned towards Peter and beyond him was

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Speaker 1: the gate. Peter got down very quietly off the wheelbarrow

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Speaker 1: and started running as fast as he could go along

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Speaker 1: a straight walk behind some black currant bushes. Mister McGregor

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Speaker 1: caught sight of him at the corner, but Peter did

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Speaker 1: not care. He slipped underneath the gate and was safe

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Speaker 1: at last in the wood outside the garden. Mister McGregor

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Speaker 1: hung up the little jacket and the shoes for a

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Speaker 1: scarecrow to frighten the blackbirds. Peter never stopped running or

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Speaker 1: looked behind him till he got home to the big

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Speaker 1: fir tree. He was so tired that he flopped down

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Speaker 1: upon the nice soft sand on the floor of the

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Speaker 1: rabbit hole and shut his eyes. His mother was busy cooking.

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Speaker 1: She wondered what he had done with his clothes. It

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Speaker 1: was the second little jacket and pair of shoes that

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Speaker 1: Peter had lost in a fortnight. I am sorry to

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Speaker 1: say that Peter was not very well during the evening.

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Speaker 1: His mother put him to bed and made some camomeal tea,

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Speaker 1: and she gave a dose of to Peter one tablespoonful

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Speaker 1: to be taken at bedtime. But Flopsy, Mopsy and Cottontail

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Speaker 1: had bread and milk and blackberries for supper,