The Merry Little Breezes told Peter that Johnny Chuck was still on the
Green Meadows, hunting for a new home, so Peter made up his mind that
just as soon as Johnny got settled, Peter would hunt him up and call.
You see, he never dreamed that Johnny would leave the Green Meadows,
and he thought that of course the Merry Little Breezes would tell him
just where Johnny Chuck's new house was, whenever it was built. But
there is where Peter made a mistake.

The Merry Little Breezes are the friends of all the little meadow and
forest people, but they wouldn't be very long if they told everything
that they find out.

Their merry tongues they guard full well
And things they shouldn't never tell,
For long ago they learned the way
To keep a secret night and day.

And so when they found Johnny Chuck's new house in the corner of
Farmer Brown's old orchard, they promised Johnny that they wouldn't
tell anybody, and they didn't. So it was a long time before any one
else found out what had become of Johnny Chuck, for no one thought of
looking in the corner of the old orchard.

The Merry Little Breezes used to come every day and bring Johnny Chuck
the news, and he and Polly Chuck would laugh and tickle, as they
thought of Peter Rabbit hunting and hunting and never finding them.

Then one morning, as Johnny Chuck sat on his door-step, half dozing in
the sun with his heart filled with contentment, he happened to look up