He had heard about cats from his cousin, little Benjamin Bunny.

He went back towards the tool-shed, but suddenly, quite close to him, he heard the noise of a hoe—scr-r-ritch, scratch, scratch, scritch.
 
Peter scuttered underneath the bushes, but presently as nothing happened, he came out and

Climbed
upon a
wheelbarrow,
and
peeped
over.