said in his very youngest voice as soon
as it was possible to make himself heard. 'I want you to understand
that I'm not any bump on a log, and before I'm through with Jimmy
Hedgehog he'll wish he'd kept his tongue between his teeth. I'm the
president of this club, and there isn't any ordinary-sized member of
the Fur section who can bulldoze me.'

"It almost frightened me to hear the president speak in that way, for,
while I haven't any love for Jimmy, it made me feel rather bad to
think how tough it would be for him when Mr. Crow started out on his
trail. Every one of the wood folks seemed to think that something more
than suspending him from the club should be done to the member who had
spoken out in meeting as Jimmy had, and while they were telling Mr.
Crow what he ought to do I slipped off, for I knew that Mrs. Bunny was
probably getting a bit angry because I'd been away from home so long.

"Now do you know, it never came into my head that Jimmy Hedgehog would
try to do me a bad turn because I had told what he said to poor Bobby.
I had to answer the questions which the president asked, or I'd sure
been brought up with a round turn, and I never said a word more than
just enough to satisfy Mr. Crow; but for all that it seems Jimmy had
it in for me good and hot.

"I hopped along home with my ears well back over my shoulders so I
could hear if anybody was after me, and was thinking what a nice time
I'd have with some of Mr. Man's carrots that I'd brought in the day
before, when what should I stumble over but a place on the moss which
looked as if there'd been mischief of some kind done there lately. I
had an idea I could smell blood ever so faintly, but even then I
didn't suspect anything was wrong at home till I crept in through the
hallway, and there was poor little Sonny Bunny all curled up as if
he'd been tied in a knot, while his mother was washing the blood spots
off his coat.

"'What's the matter?' I asked, feeling as faint as ever a rabbit
could, and Mrs. Bunny said, speaking as if it were all my fault:

"'It's something to do with that precious club of yours, and if you
don't take yourself out of it this very day Sonny Bunny and I'll leave
this hole for good and all!'

"Mrs. Bunny never did like the idea of my joining the club; but she
hadn't come out quite so strong before, and it staggered me so much
that, just for the moment, I forgot that my poor little Sonny seemed
to be in trouble. It was quite a s