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Updated: June 21, 2025
EVERY one of Daddy Longlegs' eight knees began to shake, when Sandy Chipmunk told him to stand in the middle of the road, in order to stop the old horse Ebenezer, who was pulling the wagon in which Johnnie Green and his grandmother were riding. "I can't do that!" Daddy shrieked, shrinking away from the dusty road.
Then Longlegs slowly drew his head down, and it seemed to Peter as if he must somehow wind that long neck up inside his body to get it so completely out of the way. In a minute Longlegs was standing just as before, with seemingly no neck at all. Peter watched until he grew tired, but Longlegs didn't move again.
DADDY LONGLEGS had such pleasant manners that it was no time at all before his neighbors agreed that he was a good old soul. And everybody was glad to claim him as a friend. At least, everybody but Mr. Crow! Mr. And Mr. Crow at once became so jealous that he didn't know what to do.
And his feet are enormous, as every one knows." "Well, I want more than just one pair," Daddy Longlegs piped up. "I want four making eight shoes in all. And I flatter myself that my feet are very small," he added. Jimmy Rabbit looked a bit surprised at that remark. He was not accustomed to seeing eight-legged people in his shop.
"That wouldn't be speaking to him, you know. Wave your tail at Johnnie Green until he stops the horse; and then you can run away, if you want to. And while the horse is standing still I'll scramble into the wagon, without anybody seeing me." Now, Sandy Chipmunk was a good-natured person. And he saw that unless the wagon was stopped, Daddy Longlegs was going to be terribly disappointed.
Little did Daddy Longlegs dream that a great army was even then making plans to capture him. And still less did he imagine that he was going to meet with a real adventure before the day was done. Daddy Longlegs had so many pleasant ideas in his head that there was no room in it for any thought of danger.
But he awoke with a great start when Peter Mink crawled out of his shelter about dawn. And at first Daddy couldn't imagine what was happening. But after he had been bounced about a bit he remembered the terrible accident that had happened to him in Jimmy Rabbit's shoe shop in the meadow. Suddenly Peter Mink stopped. And to Daddy Longlegs' great delight Peter began to take off his shoes. Yes!
Although people often inquired where his old home was, he always pretended that he didn't hear them and began to talk about the weather. And as for Daddy Longlegs' new home in Pleasant Valley, nobody knew much about that either. No matter how curious anyone might be, it did him no good at all to ask Daddy Longlegs where he lived.
Again, if I stopped casting suddenly at the deep trout pool opposite a grassy shore, to follow with my eyes a tall, gray-blue shadow on stilts moving dimly alongshore in seven-league-boot strides for the next bog, where frogs were plenty, Simmo would point with his paddle and say: "See, Ol' Fader Longlegs go catch-um more frogs for his babies.
Somehow Peter had always thought of Longlegs the Blue Heron as never alighting anywhere except on the ground. But here was Mrs. Longlegs in a tree. Having nothing to fear, Peter crept out from his hiding place that he might see better. In the tree in which Mrs. Longlegs was perched and just below her he saw a little platform of sticks.
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