Harriman, Susan S., comp · Boston, New York, Houghton Mifflin Company · leaf 416
egs andwent faster, so that I think he might have gotaway altogether if he had not unfortunatelyrun into a gooseberry net, and got caught bythe large buttons on his jacket. It was a bluejacket with brass buttons, quite new. Peter gave himself up for lost, and shed big tears; but his sobs were… … STORIES FOR LITTLE CHILDREN wriggled out just in time, leaving his jacketbehind him, and rushed into the tool-shed,and jumped into a can. It would have been abeautiful thing to hide in, if it had not hadso much water in it. Mr. McGregor was quite sure that Peterwas somewhere in the tool-shed,…
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