k. Put your coat on and come up here!" called Jimmy
Skunk.

"Go away, Jimmy Skunk. I want to sleep!" said Johnny Chuck.

"I've got a surprise for you, Johnny Chuck. You'd better come!" called
Jimmy Skunk through the little hole he had made. When Johnny Chuck heard
that Jimmy Skunk had a surprise for him he wanted to know right away
what it could be, so though he was very, very sleepy, he put on his
coat and started up for his door to see what the surprise was that Jimmy
Skunk had. And there he found the big stone Reddy Fox and Bobby Coon had
put there, and of course he was very much surprised indeed. He thought
Jimmy Skunk had played him a mean trick and for a few minutes he was
very mad. But Jimmy Skunk soon told him who had filled up his doorway
with the big stone.

"Now you push from that side, Johnny Chuck, and I'll pull from this
side, and we'll soon have this big stone out of your doorway," said
Jimmy Skunk.

So Johnny Chuck pushed and Jimmy Skunk pulled, and sure enough they soon
had the big stone out of Johnny Chuck's doorway.

"Now," said Jimmy Skunk, "we'll roll this big stone down the Lone Little
Path to Reddy Fox's house and we'll give Reddy Fox a surprise."

So Johnny Chuck and Jimmy Skunk tugged and pulled and rolled the big
stone down to the house of Reddy Fox, and sure enough, it filled his
doorway.

"Good night, Jimmy Skunk," said Johnny Chuck, and trotted down the Lone
Little Path toward home, chuckling to himself all the way.

Jimmy Skunk walked slowly up the Lone Little Path to the wood, for Jimmy
Skunk never hurries. Pretty soon he came to the big hollow tree where
Bobby Coon lives, and there he met Hooty the Owl.

"Hello, Jimmy Skunk, where have you been?" asked Hooty the Owl.

"Just for a walk," said Jimmy Skunk. "Who lives in this big hollow
tree?"

Now of course Jimmy Skunk knew all the time, but he pretended he didn't.

"Oh, this is Bobby Coon's house," said Hooty the Owl.

"Let's give Bobby Coon a surprise," said Jimmy Skunk.

"How?" asked Hooty the Owl.

"We'll fill his house full of sticks and leaves," said Jimmy Skunk.

Hooty the Owl thought that would be a good joke so while Jimmy Skunk
gathered all the old sticks and leaves he could find, Hooty the Owl
stuffed them into the old hollow tree which was Bobby Coon's house,
until he couldn't get in another one.

"Good night," said Jimmy Skunk as he began to climb the Crooked Little
Path up the hill to his own snug little h