happened, he wouldn't come back, after having given his house to Jimmy
Skunk.

When he had reached a place where he thought Jimmy Skunk couldn't see
him, Johnny Chuck turned and looked back, and a queer little feeling
seemed to make a lump that filled his throat and choked him. The fact
is, Johnny Chuck already began to feel homesick. But he swallowed very
hard and tried to make himself think that he was having a splendid
time. He stopped looking back and started on, and as he tramped along,
he tried to sing a song he had once heard Jimmy Skunk sing:

"The world may stretch full far and wide--
What matters that to me?
I'll tramp it up; I'll tramp it down!
For I am bold and free."

It was a very brave little song, but Johnny Chuck didn't feel half so
brave and bold as he tried to think he did. Already he was beginning
to wonder where he should spend the night. Then he thought of old
Whitetail the Marshhawk, who had given him such a fright and had so
nearly caught him when he was a little fellow. The thought made him
look around hastily, and there was old Whitetail himself, sailing back
and forth hungrily just ahead of him. A great fear took possession of
Johnny Chuck, and he made himself as flat as possible in the grass,
for there was no place to hide. He made up his mind that anyway he
would fight.

Nearer and nearer came old Whitetail! Finally he passed right over
Johnny Chuck. But he didn't offer to touch him. Indeed, it seemed to
Johnny that old Whitetail actually grinned and winked at him. And