d? Why, he curled right up in the nice
sweet clover and went fast asleep.

Great round, red Mr. Sun kept climbing higher and higher up in the sky,
then by and by he began to go down on the other side, and long shadows
began to creep out across the Green Meadows. Johnny Chuck didn't know
anything about them: he was fast asleep.

By and by one of the Merry Little Breezes found Johnny Chuck all curled
up in a funny round ball.

"Wake up Johnny Chuck! Wake up!" shouted the Merry Little Breeze.

Johnny Chuck opened his eyes. Then he sat up and rubbed them. For just a
few, few minutes he couldn't remember where he was at all.

By and by he sat up very straight to look over the grass and see where
he was. But he was so far from home that he didn't see a single thing
that looked at all like the things he was used to. The trees were all
different. The bushes were all different. Everything was different.
Johnny Chuck was lost.

Now, when Johnny sat up, Reddy Fox happened to be looking over the Green
Meadows and he saw Johnny's head where it popped above the grass.

"Aha!" said Reddy Fox, "I'll scare Johnny Chuck so he'll wish he'd never
put his nose out of his house."

Then Reddy dropped down behind the long grass and crept softly, oh,
ever so softly, through the paths of his own, until he was right behind
Johnny Chuck. Johnny Chuck had been so intent looking for home that he
didn't see anything else.

Reddy Fox stole right up behind Johnny and pulled Johnny's little short
tail hard. How it did frighten Johnny Chuck! He jumped right straight
up in the air and when he came down he was the maddest little woodchuck
that ever lived in the Green Meadows.

Reddy Fox had thought that Johnny would run, and then Reddy meant to run
after him and pull his tail and tease him all the way home. Now, Reddy
Fox got as big a surprise as Johnny had had when Reddy pulled his tail.
Johnny didn't stop to think that Reddy Fox was twice as big as he,
but with his eyes snapping, and chattering as only a little Chuck can
chatter, with every little hair on his little body standing right up
on end, so that he seemed twice as big as he really was, he started for
Reddy Fox.

It surprised Reddy Fox so that he didn't know what to do, and he simply
ran. Johnny Chuck ran after him, nipping Reddy's heels every minute or
two. Peter Rabbit just happened to be down that way. He was sitting up
very straight looking to see what mischief he could get into