down the Lone Little Path through the Green Forest.

Peter Rabbit, who had been out all night and was just then on his
way home, saw him. Peter stopped and sat up to rub his eyes and
look again. He wasn't quite sure that he had seen aright the
first time. But he had. There was Farmer Brown's boy, sure
enough, and at his heels trotted Bowser the Hound.

Peter Rabbit rubbed his eyes once more and wrinkled up his
eyebrows. Farmer Brown's boy certainly had a gun over one
shoulder and a spade over the other. Where could he be going down
the Lone Little Path with a spade? Farmer Brown's garden
certainly was not in that direction. Peter watched him out of
sight and then he hurried down to the Green Meadows to tell
Johnny Chuck what he had seen. My, how Peter's long legs did fly!
He was so excited that he had forgotten how sleepy he had felt a
few minutes before.

Halfway down to Johnny Chuck's house, Peter Rabbit almost ran
plump into Bobby Coon and Jimmy Skunk, who had been quarreling
and were calling each other names. They stopped when they saw
Peter Rabbit.

"Peter Rabbit runs away
From his shadder, so they say.
Peter, Peter, what a sight!
Tell us why this sudden fright,"

shouted Bobby Coon.