straight into two sharp eyes peering down at him from among the leaves
of the apple-tree under which he had built his house. He knew those
eyes. They were such sharp eyes that they were unpleasant. He didn't
even have to look for the blue and white coat of the owner to know who
had found his snug home. But he pretended to keep right on dozing, and
pretty soon the owner of the eyes disappeared without making a sound.

"Oh, dear," sighed Johnny Chuck, "now the whole world will know where
we live, for that was Sammy Jay." Then his face brightened as he
added: "Anyway, he didn't see Polly Chuck, and he doesn't know
anything about her, so I'll keep twice as sharp a watch as before."




XVI

SAMMY JAY PLANS MISCHIEF


Mischief may not mean to be really truly bad,
But somehow it seems to make other people sad;
Does a mean unpleasant thing and tries to think it fun;
Then, alas, it runs away when trouble has begun.

Of all the little people who live in the Green Forest and on the Green
Meadows, none is more mischievous than Sammy Jay. It seems sometimes
as if there was more mischief under that pert little cap Sammy Jay
wears than in the heads of all the other little meadow and forest
people put together. When he isn't actually in mischief, Sammy Jay is