"That depends upon what it is," replied Boomer.

"It's just an errand," replied Sammy Jay, and then he asked Boomer to go
down to the Green Meadows and tell Peter Rabbit how he, Boomer, had seen
Sammy going to bed up in the far-away Old Pasture.

Boomer promised that he would, and off he started. He found Peter and told
him. Of course Peter was very much surprised and, because he cannot keep
his tongue still, he started off at once to tell everybody he could find,
just as Blacky the Crow had thought he would do.




XII


NO ONE BELIEVES PETER RABBIT

Peter Rabbit sat in his secret place in the middle of the Old Briar-patch.
Peter was doing some very hard thinking. He ought to have been asleep, for
he had been out the whole night long. But instead of sleeping, he was wide
awake and thinking and thinking.

You see early the night before Boomer the Nighthawk had told Peter that
Sammy Jay was up in the far-away Old Pasture. Boomer had seen him going to
bed there and had come straight down to tell Peter. This was great news,
and Peter could hardly wait for Boomer to stop talking, he was so anxious
to spread the news over the Green Meadows and through the Green Forest, for