. Sun was getting very close to the
Purple Hills, where he goes to bed every night, and all the little
meadow folks were getting ready to go to their homes. They were
wondering and wondering what could have happened to the racers, when
Sammy Jay spied the Merry Little Breezes dancing across the Green
Meadows.

"Here come the Merry Little Breezes; they'll tell us who wins the race,"
cried Sammy Jay.

When the Merry Little Breezes reached the old butternut tree, all the
little meadow folks crowded around them, but the Merry Little Breezes
just laughed and laughed and wouldn't say a word. Then all of a sudden,
out of the tall meadow grass crept Spotty the Turtle and laid the
hickory nut at the feet of old Grandfather Frog. Old Grandfather Frog
was so surprised that he actually let a great green fly buzz right past
his nose.

"Where did you get that hickory nut?" asked Grandfather Frog.

"Under the big hickory tree on the hill on the other side of the Green
Meadows," said Spotty.

Then all the Merry Little Breezes clapped their hands and shouted: "He
did! He did! Spotty wins the race!"

Then they told how Spotty reached the pond by clinging to the tip of
Reddy Fox's tail, and had hidden the other two nuts, and then how he had
patiently crawled home while Billy Mink and Reddy Fox and Peter Rabbit
were hunting and hunting and hunting for the nuts they could not find.

And so Spotty the Turtle was awarded the race, and to this day Peter
Rabbit and Reddy Fox and Billy Mink can't bear the sight of a hickory
nut.

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