The Adventures of Peter Cottontail
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|PETER RABBIT! Peter Rabbit! I don't see what Mother Nature ever gave me such a common sounding name as that for. People laugh at me, but if I had a fine sounding name they wouldn't laugh. Some folks say that a name doesn't amount to anything, but it does. If I should do some wonderful thing, nobody would think anything of it. No, Sir, nobody would think anything of it at all just because--why just because it was don…
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- AuthorThornton W. Burgess
- SourceProject Gutenberg #46866
- Length15,147 words · 1h 01m of reading
- Chapters31
- DictionaryNot yet generated
- CopyrightPublic domain in the United States
- Source checked2026-08-28
Contents
31 chapters
Recovered from the original source text, so you can open the book at any of them.
- 01I. PETER RABBIT DECIDES TO CHANGE HIS NAME
- 02And that's the way and only way
- 03II. PETER FINDS A NAME
- 04In the future without fail
- 05III. THERE'S NOTHING LIKE THE OLD NAME AFTER ALL
- 06IV. PETER RABBIT FOOLS JIMMY SKUNK
- 07V. REDDY POX GETS INTO TROUBLE
- 08VI. REDDY FOOLS BOWSER THE HOUND
- 09VII. REDDY INVITES PETER RABBIT TO TAKE A WALK
- 10VIII. PETER RABBIT GETS AN EARLY BREAKFAST
- 11IX. REDDY FOX GETS A SCARE
- 12X. PETER HAS ANOTHER GREAT LAUGH
- 13XI. SHADOW THE WEASEL GETS LOST
- 14He's as brave as brave can be
- 15XII. THE PLOT OF TWO SCAMPS
- 16XIII. REDDY FOX COMES TO LIFE
- 17XIV. PETER RABBIT IN A TIGHT PLACE
- 18XV. JOHNNY CHUCK HELPS PETER
- 19XVI. REDDY FOX TELLS A WRONG STORY
- 20XVII. REDDY ALMOST GETS PETER RABBIT
- 21XVIII. JOHNNY CHUCK PREPARES FOR WINTER
- 22XIX. PETER RABBIT GETS ANOTHER SURPRISE
- 23XX. PETER TRIES OL' MISTAH BUZZARD
- 24They talk of meeting in the spring
- 25XI. HAPPY JACK SQUIRREL IS TO BUSY TO TALK
- 26XXII. UNC' BILLY POSSUM EXPLAINS THINGS
- 27XXIII. PETER RABBIT HAS A BRIGHT IDEA
- 28XXIV. PETER PREPARES FOR A LONG SLEEP
- 29It takes so long to fill it up
- 30Always wanting something more
- 31XXVI. PETER RABBIT LEARNS HIS LESSON
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