knew that Jimmy Skunk was over in the pasture, so he popped right
in and then he was safe, for the door of Jimmy Skunk's house was
too small for Reddy Fox to squeeze in. Reddy Fox sat down and
waited, but Peter Rabbit didn't come out. By and by Reddy Fox
gave it up and trotted off home where old Mother Fox was waiting
for him.

All this time Johnny Chuck had sat very still, watching Reddy Fox
try to catch Peter Rabbit. And when he saw Peter Rabbit pop into
the house of Jimmy Skunk and Reddy Fox trot away home, Johnny
Chuck stood up and brushed his little coat very clean and then he
trotted back up the Lone Little Path through the wood to his own
dear little path through the Green Meadows where the Merry Little
Breezes of Old Mother West Wind were still playing, till he was
safe in his own snug little house once more.



CHAPTER X HOW SAMMY JAY WAS FOUND OUT

Sammy Jay was very busy, very busy indeed. When anyone happened
that way Sammy Jay pretended to be doing nothing at all, for
Sammy Jay thought himself a very fine gentleman. He was very
proud of his handsome blue coat with white trimmings and his high
cap, and he would sit on a fence post and make fun of Johnny
Chuck working at a new door for his snug little home in the Green
Meadows, and of Striped Chipmunk storing up heaps of corn and
nuts for the winter, for most of the time Sammy Jay was an idle
fellow. And when Sammy Jay WAS busy, he was pretty sure to be
doing something that he ought not to do, for idle people almost