Befuddled George sat on his throne
absorbed in conversation with Peter Rabbit. Peter Rabbit had
persuaded George to come with him to Mr. McGregor's garden so they
could knock over the scare crow, so George arose from his throne and
put on his hat and coat and followed Peter Rabbit out the door.
Across the street they went and into the back yard of Mr. McGregor
where Peter Rabbit lived with his family in a hole in the ground with
a nice kitchen, which was really a bomb shelter (little known to
George). They climbed into the hole and Peter Rabbit's mom made them
a nice pot of chamomile tea which George really enjoyed.
Then it was time to tackle the scare
crow. George looked up at it and it was metal and tall with a large
round face on top. George said to Peter Rabbit “This is too
strong to knock over but maybe if I climb to the top I can knock the
face off so it won't scare anyone.” Peter Rabbit jumped up and
down and said “Yes, please try.” So George started climbing and
got half way up when Mr. McGregor came out the back door. Mr.
McGregor was startled and blurted “Who are you up there climbing my
tower, what are you doing?” And George rather taken aback said
“Peter Rabbit wants me to knock the face off your scare crow.”
Well, Mr. McGregor was so dumbfounded he went back in his house and
called the police.
George continued climbing but when he
neared the top he was distracted by the whoop, whoop of a siren
coming down the back lane. A fancy car with lights all flashing
stopped right behind the house and out got no one other than Tommy
Brock, the veteran kidnapper. George thought “Oh no, he's
coming to get Peter Rabbit,” but Tommy came over to the scarecrow
and looking up said “Hey you up there, I've come to take you away,
away, and if you don't come down now I'll call the fire department
and they'll carry you down.” So George not wanting to be carried
down by the fire department slowly climbed all the way back down to
the ground.
When George got to the ground Tommy put
a big net over him and dragged him over to the fancy car and stuffed
him in the back seat. Tommy drove George all the way to one of Mr.
Tod's houses and put him in an iron cage that Mr. Tod had built in
the back corner. In the mean time, Peter Rabbit, who had been
hiding behind a big cabbage when Tommy came, and knew that Tommy was
not a nice man and would make a big pie out of George, had followed
the fancy car all the way to Mr. Tod's house. Peter Rabbit sneaked into Mr.
Tod's house because the door was open just a crack, and saw George in
the steel cage with a huge lock on the door. Peter Rabbit saw that Tommy,
with a big bag of doughnuts, had dozed off at the table and a big
key was right there in front of him. So very quietly Peter Rabbit
jumped up on the table, but the key was too heavy for him to carry, so
he jumped down and pushed a broom so George could just reach it.
Peter Rabbit whispered to George “Hook
the key with the broom, and when you get the key, put it in the lock
real quite and turn it.” So George hooked the key with the broom
and put the key in the lock and turned it and the door came open ever
so gently. Peter Rabbit whispered “Follow me.” So George and
Peter Rabbit real quietly sneaked out the open door and hiding from
everyone in the back lanes, made their way back to Peter Rabbit's
house where George lived quite happily with Peter Rabbit's family for
many years, eating Mr. McGregor's vegetables. Because Mr. McGregor
never went into his bomb shelter he didn't know George was there with
the rabbits, and Tommy couldn't find George either. And George
never climbed up the scarecrow ever again.
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