"Hee! hee! hee!" giggled Danny Meadow Mouse.

"What time will Bowser get here?" asked Bobby Coon, gravely.

"Tell Bowser that we are all waiting for him," added Jimmy Skunk.

"Is Bowser quite out of breath?" inquired Jerry Muskrat.

"I would like nothing better than to run a race with Bowser the
Hound," said Jumper the Hare, sitting up very straight.

Sammy Jay didn't know what to do or what to say. He was just the most
disgusted looking Jay that ever flew through the Green Forest, and all
the time he wondered and wondered and wondered how it could be that
Peter Rabbit and his friends knew that Bowser the Hound was not in the
Green Forest at all. You see, old Mr. Toad had told Peter all about
Sammy's plan, and this is what Peter had been whispering to the
others.




XII

PRICKLY PORKY MAKES HIMSELF AT HOME


Peter Rabbit's party promised to be a great success. When old Mr.
Toad, who had overheard Sammy Jay's plan, had told Peter Rabbit all
about it, he had also told Peter that Reddy Fox and Shadow the Weasel