said Peter.
“As you have made a rhyme,” said the man, “I’ll take them back, and you may go home.”
Then the man hit Peter sharply with one end of the reins, and his new suit fell off, and he found himself in his old pinafore.
Then Peter went home and told Anna what had happened to him; and Anna told Peter all about the mouse, and they both thought that they had had a lucky escape.
Just then the boy with the pipe came down the street. And the pipe played these words—
“Keep out of mischief; you never know
What may come to cause you woe;
What you may think is very good fun,
May give you trouble before you’ve done.”