Chuck, wondering and wondering
what it could be that Peter Rabbit had found.

Pretty soon they came to a nice mossy green log right across the Lone
Little Path. Peter Rabbit stopped and sat up very straight. He looked
this way and looked that way. Johnny Chuck stopped too and he sat up
very straight and looked this way and looked that way, but all he could
see was the mossy green log across the Lone Little Path.

"What is it, Peter Rabbit?" whispered Johnny Chuck.

"You can't see it yet," whispered Peter Rabbit, "for first we have to
jump over that mossy green log. Now I'll jump first, and then you jump
just the way I do, and then you'll see what it is I've found," said
Peter Rabbit.

So Peter Rabbit jumped first, and because his legs are long and meant
for jumping, he jumped way, way over the mossy green log. Then he turned
around and sat up to see Johnny Chuck jump over the mossy green log,
too.

Johnny Chuck tried to jump very high and very far, just as he had seen
Peter Rabbit jump, but Johnny Chuck's legs are very short and not meant
for jumping. Besides, Johnny Chuck was very, very fat. So though he
tried very hard indeed to jump just like Peter Rabbit, he stubbed his
toes on the top of the mossy green log and over he tumbled, head first,
and landed with a great big thump right on Reddy Fox, who was lying fast
asleep on the other side of the mossy green log.

Peter Rabbit laughed and laughed until he had to hold his sides.

My, how frightened Johnny Chuck was when he saw what he had done! Before
he could get on his feet he had rolled right over behind a little bush,
and there he lay very, very still.

Reddy Fox awoke with a grunt when Johnny Chuck fell on him so hard, and
the first thing he saw was Peter Rabbit laughing so that he had to hold
his sides. Reddy Fox didn't stop to look around. He thought that Peter
Rabbit had jumped on him. Up jumped Reddy Fox and away ran Peter Rabbit.
Away went Reddy Fox after Peter Rabbit. Peter dodged behind the trees,
and jumped over the bushes, and ran this way and ran that way, just as
hard as ever he could, for Peter Rabbit was very much afraid of Reddy
Fox. And Reddy Fox followed Peter Rabbit behind the trees and over the
bushes this way and that way, but he couldn't catch Peter Rabbit. Pretty
soon Peter Rabbit came to the house of Jimmy Skunk. He knew that Jimmy
Skunk was over in the pasture, so he popped right in and then he was
safe, for the door of Jimmy Skunk'