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CHAPTER XIII

CURIOSITY IS SATISFIED

The curious to gratify,
You first will have to satisfy.

Little Joe Otter.

Peter Rabbit sat at the top of the steep bank of the Laughing Brook in the Green Forest, as puzzled a Rabbit as ever lived. The queer trail he had followed ended in this long furrow straight down the steep bank to the water. Peter hadn't the least idea who had made that queer trail. So he sat there, staring all about rather foolishly, and now and then