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Frst publiśt in 1902
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Wns upn a tîm ɖr wr for litl Rabits, n ɖer nemz wr Flopsi, Mopsi, Cotn Teil,
n Pītr.
Ɖe livd wɖ ɖer Muɖr in a sandbanc, undnʈ ɖ rūt v a vri big fr̋tri.
‘Nǎ mî dirz,’ sd old Msz Rabit wn mornñ, ‘y me g intu ɖ fīldz or dǎn ɖ len, bt d’nt g intu Mr MGregr’z gardn: yr Faɖr hd an axidnt ɖr; h wz pt in a pî bî Msz MGregr.’
‘Nǎ run alñ, n d’nt gt intu misćif. I am gwñ ǎt.’
Ɖen old Msz Rabit tc a bascit n hr umbrela, n wnt ʈru ɖ wŭd t ɖ becr’z. Ś bòt a lof v brǎn bred n fîv cúṛnt bunz.
Flopsi, Mopsi, n Cotn Teil, hu wr gd litl buniz, wnt dǎn ɖ len t gaɖr blacḅriz.
Bt Pītr, hu wz vri nōti, ran stret awe t Mr MGregr’z gardn, n sqizd undr ɖ get!
Frst h ét sm leṭsz n sm Frenć bīnz; n ɖen h ét sm raḍśz;
N ɖen, fīlñ rɖr sic, h wnt t lc fr sm parsli.
Bt rnd ɖ end v a kcumbrfrem, hūm śd h mīt bt Mr MGregr!
Mr MGregr wz on hiz handz n niz plantñ ǎt yuñ caḅjz, bt h jumt p n ran aftr Pītr, wevñ a rêc n cōlñ ǎt, ‘Stop ʈīf!’
Pītr wz most dredḟli frîtnd; h ruśt ol ovr ɖ gardn, fr h hd fgotn ɖ we bac t ɖ get.
H lost wn v hiz śuz amñ ɖ caḅjz, n ɖ uɖr śu amñst ɖ ptetoz.
Aftr luzñ ɖm, h ran on for legz n wnt fastr, so ɖt I ʈnc h mt hv got awe oltgɖr f h hd nt unforćṇtli run intu a gūzḅrinet, n got còt bî ɖ larj butnz on hiz jacit. It wz a blu jacit wɖ bras butnz, qt ny.
Pītr gev himslf p fr lost, n śed big tirz; bt hiz sobz wr oṿhŕd bî sm frendli sparoz, hu flù t him in gret xîtmnt, n implord him t xrt himslf.
Mr MGregr cem p wɖ a siv, ẃć h intndd t pop upn ɖ top v Pītr; bt Pītr rigld ǎt jst in tîm, līvñ hiz jacit bhnd him.
N ruśt intu ɖ tūlśed, n jumt intu a can. It wd hv bn a bytifl ʈñ t hîd in, f it hd nt hd so mć wōtr in it.
Mr MGregr wz qt śr ɖt Pītr wz smẃr in ɖ tūlśed, phps hidn undnʈ a flǎrpot. H bgan t trn ɖm ovr cerḟli, lcñ undr ć.
Prezntli Pītr snizd—’Ctiśū!’ Mr MGregr wz aftr him in no tîm.
N traid t pt hiz ft upn Pītr, hu jumt ǎt v a windo, upsetñ ʈri plants. Ɖ windo wz tù smōl fr Mr MGregr, n h wz tîrd v runñ aftr Pītr. H wnt bac t hiz wrc.
Pītr sat dǎn t rest; h wz ǎt v breʈ n tremḅlñ wɖ frît, n h hd nt ɖ līst îdīa ẃć we t g. Olso h wz vri damp wɖ sitñ in ɖt can.
Aftr a tîm h bgan t wondr abt, gwñ liṗti—liṗti—nt vri fast, n lcñ ol rnd.
H faund a dor in a wōl; bt it wz loct, n ɖr wz no rūm fr a fat litl rabit t sqīz undnʈ.
An old mǎs wz runñ in n ǎt ovr ɖ ston dorstep, cariyñ piz n bīnz t hr faṃli in ɖ wŭd. Pītr asct hr ɖ we t ɖ get, bt ś hd sć a larj pi in hr mǎʈ ɖt ś cd nt ansr. Ś onli śc hr hed at him. Pītr bgan t crî.
Ɖen h traid t fînd hiz we stret acrs ɖ gardn, bt h bcem mor n mor puzld. Prezntli, h cem t a pond ẃr Mr MGregr fild hiz wōtrcanz. A ẃît cat wz stẹrñ at sm goldfiś, ś sat vri, vri stil, bt nǎ n ɖen ɖ tip v hr teil twićt az f it wr alîv. Pītr ʈt it bst t g awe wɖt spīcñ t hr; h hd hŕd abt cats fṛm hiz cuzn, litl Bnɉmin Buni.
H wnt bac twdz ɖ tūlśed, bt sudnli, qt clos t him, h hŕd ɖ nôz v a ho—scr-r-rić, scrać, scrać, scrić. Pītr scutrd undnʈ ɖ bśz. Bt prezntli, az nʈñ hapnd, h cem ǎt, n clîmd upn a ẃīlbaro n pīpt ovr. Ɖ frst ʈñ h sw wz Mr MGregr howñ uńnz. Hiz bac wz trnd twdz Pītr, n bynd him wz ɖ get!
Pītr got dǎn vri qaytli of ɖ ẃīlbaro; n startd runñ az fast az h cd g, alñ a stret wōc bhnd sm blac̦úṛnt bśz.
Mr MGregr còt sît v him at ɖ cornr, bt Pītr dd nt cer. H slipt undnʈ ɖ get, n wz sef at last in ɖ wŭd ǎtsd ɖ gardn.
Mr MGregr huñ p ɖ litl jacit n ɖ śuz fr a scercro t frîtn ɖ blacbrdz.
Pītr nvr stopt runñ or lct bhnd him tl h got hom t ɖ big fr̋tri.
H wz so tîrd ɖt h flopt dǎn upn ɖ nîs soft sand on ɖ flor v ɖ rabithoul n śut hiz îz. Hiz muɖr wz bizi ccñ; ś wundrd ẃt h hd dn wɖ hiz cloɖz. It wz ɖ secnd litl jacit n per v śuz ɖt Pītr hd lost in a fortnît!
I am sori t se ɖt Pītr wz nt vri wel jrñ ɖ īvnñ.
Hiz muɖr pt him t bed, n md sm cammîl ti; n ś gev a dos v it t Pītr!
‘Wn teblspūnfl t b tecn at bedtîm.’
Bt Flopsi, Mopsi, n Cotn Teil hd bred n milc n blacḅriz fr supr.
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