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Then Peter made a splendid flying jump right over the old barrel and kept on down the hill, lipperty-lipperty-lip, as fast as ever he could, straight for an old house of Johnny Chuck's of which he knew. When he reached it, he turned to see what was happening behind him, for he knew by the screaming of Sammy Jay and by other sounds that a great deal was happening.
Phyllis put her arm around her consolingly. "But what has happened, dear? Tell us," she begged. "Oh, it's too terrible for words!" Muriel was certainly prolonging the agony. "What is?" Sally demanded sharply. "Chuck's little cousin has been kidnapped!" It was out, and Muriel looked up long enough to judge the effect on her hearers and then fell to sobbing again.
When he got there, of course he saw Johnny Chuck's new house right away. "Ho!" cried Farmer Brown's boy. "Brer Fox was hunting Chucks. I'll keep my eye on this, and if Mr. Chuck makes any trouble in my garden, I'll know where to catch him." Ever since Farmer Brown's boy and Reddy Fox had found his new house in the far corner of the old orchard, Johnny Chuck had been worried.
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.
There is Johnny Chuck's old house just ahead of me. Now we will see what we shall see." He walked softly as he drew near to the old house. If Peter was way down inside, it wouldn't matter how he approached.
It seemed to him that there was just the least little hint of a smile in the corners of Grandfather Frog's big mouth. "You sit here a minute," he whispered in Johnny Chuck's ear. So Johnny Chuck sat down where he was, which was right where Grandfather Frog could see him by lifting one eyelid just the teeniest bit, and Peter hopped along the bank until he was right behind Grandfather Frog.
She decided that she wasn't having such a very grand time, after all, and that she hated his teeth, which were very bad. Now, Chuck's strong, white double row ... "Well," she said, "let's be going." "No hurry," again. Tessie looked up at that with the instinctive fear of her kind. "What d'you mean, no hurry! 'Spect to stay here till dark?" She laughed at her own joke. "Yes."
You see it has grown to be a habit with Sammy Jay, and habits, especially bad habits, have a way of growing and growing. Now Sammy Jay had no quarrel with Johnny Chuck. Oh, my, no! He would have told you that he liked Johnny Chuck. Everybody likes Johnny Chuck. But just as soon as Sammy Jay found Johnny Chuck's new house, he began to plan mischief.
Janet was still looking out of the window as though she feared the mitten might fly away if she took her eyes from it. They waited until the door bell announced Chuck's arrival. Phyllis flew down the stairs to meet him. "Here," he said, by way of greeting and he handed her a white mitten. Phyllis took it eagerly; it had a blue border, and it was handmade after a pattern of long ago.
One day while touring in the south he came down grade around a bend squarely upon a car ascending. Chuck's car was going too fast to be stopped. He tried desperately to wrench it from the road, but perceived at once that this was impossible without a fatal skid. Fortunately the only turnout for a half mile happened to be just at that spot.
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