"Thank you," shouted all the Merry Little Breezes. "We won't
forget."

Then they ran a race to see who could reach Johnny Chuck's home
first and tell him that Farmer Brown was coming down on the Green
Meadows with a gun.



CHAPTER III HOW REDDY FOX WAS SURPRISED

Johnny Chuck and Reddy Fox lived very near together on the edge
of the Green Meadows. Johnny Chuck was fat and roly-poly. Reddy
Fox was slim and wore a bright red coat. Reddy Fox used to like
to frighten Johnny Chuck by suddenly popping out from behind a
tree and making believe that he was going to eat Johnny Chuck all
up.

One bright summer day Johnny Chuck was out looking for a good
breakfast of nice tender clover. He had wandered quite a long way
from his snug little house in the long meadow grass, although his
mother had told him never to go out of sight of the door. But
Johnny was like some little boys I know, and forgot all he had
been told.

He walked and walked and walked. Every few minutes Johnny Chuck
saw something farther on that looked like a patch of nice fresh
clover. And every time when he reached it Johnny Chuck found that
he had made a mistake. So Johnny Chuck walked and walked and
walked.