just have to believe them without understanding them and be content to
know that they are so," she said, and hurried over to the Green Forest
to tell Unc' Billy Possum that his old friend, Ol' Mistah Buzzard, was
on his way up from ol' Virginny.




II

JOHNNY CHUCK RECEIVES CALLERS


The morning after gentle Sister South Wind arrived on the Green
Meadows, Peter Rabbit came hopping and skipping down the Lone Little
Path from the Green Forest. Peter was happy. He didn't know why. He
just was happy. It was in the air. Everybody else seemed happy, too.
Peter had to stop every few minutes just to kick up his heels and try
to jump over his own shadow. He had felt just that way ever since
gentle Sister South Wind arrived.

"I simply have to kick and dance!
I cannot help but gaily prance!
Somehow I feel it in my toes
Whenever gentle South Wind blows."

So sang Peter Rabbit as he hopped and skipped down the Lone Little
Path. Suddenly he stopped right in the middle of the verse. He sat up
very straight and stared down at Johnny Chuck's house. Some one was
sitting on Johnny Chuck's door-step. It looked like Johnny Chuck. No,