And where do you think Johnny was building his new home? It was clear
way over on the edge of Farmer Brown's old orchard! Yes, Sir, after
all the fuss Johnny Chuck had made over any other Chuck living on the
Green Meadows, and after driving the old gray Chuck back to the Old
Pasture, Johnny Chuck had left the Green Meadows himself!

It wasn't of his own accord that Johnny Chuck had left the Green
Meadows. No, indeed! He loved them too well for that. But he loved
Polly Chuck more, and although he had grumbled a little, he had
followed her up to the old orchard, and now they were going to stay
there. Sometimes Johnny shivered when he thought how near were Farmer
Brown and Farmer Brown's boy and Bowser the Hound.

He had never been so far from his old home on the Green Meadows
before, and it was all very strange up here. It was very lovely, too.
Besides, it was in this very old orchard that Polly Chuck had been
born, and she knew every part of it. Johnny felt better when he found
that out. So he set to work to build a home, and this time he meant
business. Polly Chuck could change her mind as many times as she
pleased; that was going to be their home and that was where they were
going to live.

Now Johnny Chuck had grown wise in the ways of the world since he
first ran away from the home where he was born. Twice since then he
had built a new home, and now this would be better than either of the
others. He paid no heed to Polly, when she pouted because he did not
dig where she wanted him to. He went from tree to tree, big old apple-
trees they were, and at the very last tree, way down in a corner near
a tumbled-down stone wall, he found what he wanted--two spreading roots