CHAPTER XXII

SAMMY JAY BECOMES CURIOUS


Learn all you can about others, but keep your own affairs to yourself.
Peter Rabbit.

Of course it was Sammy Jay who first found out that Peter Rabbit was
back in the dear Old Briar-patch. Sammy took it into his head to fly
over there the very morning of Peter's home-coming. Indeed, little Miss
Fuzzytail hadn't had time to half see the clear Old Briar-patch which,
you know, was to be her new home, when Peter saw Sammy Jay coming. Now
Peter was not quite ready to have all the world know that there was a
Mrs. Peter, for of course that was what little Miss Fuzzytail was now
that she had come to make her home with Peter. They wanted to keep by
themselves for a little while and just be happy with each other. So as
soon as Peter saw Sammy Jay headed towards the Old Briar-patch, he hid
little Miss Fuzzytail under the thickest sweet-briar bush, and then
hurried out to the nearest sweet-clover patch.

Of course Sammy Jay saw him right away, and of course Sammy was very
much surprised.

"Hello, Peter Rabbit! Where'd you come from?" he shouted, as he settled
himself comfortably in a little poplar-tree growing on the edge of the