by Jimmy Hedgehog, but we'd hear nothing more of that kind after his
plan had been worked out.

"Mrs. Bunny smoothed down a little before he left, and when he flew
off I went into the bedroom to see poor little Sonny Bunny, though I
was just fairly dying to know what it was Mr. Crow counted on doing to
Jimmy, and why it was necessary for him to see Mr. Turtle.

"Sonny Bunny was looking pretty bad when I went in; but he perked up a
good bit after I told him how I'd served out young Mr. Fox, and
before a great while he began to play around just as ever, though he
was mighty careful not to rub up against anything, on account of being
so sore in the places where Jimmy's quills had stuck into him.

"It was the longest while before Mrs. Bunny would so much as listen to
my going out again to see what Mr. Crow's trick might be; but after
I'd talked so much about it that she began to grow a bit curious
herself, she agreed that it would be all right if I didn't stay more
than an hour, and took good care to keep away from the Fox family.

"Well, I kissed Sonny Bunny, who cried to go with me, as he might have
done if only his mother had been willing, and then off I hopped,
puzzling my brain to guess what part Mr. Turtle could have in Mr.
Crow's plot."

CHAPTER XV

MR. TURTLE

"Now if you had known the president of the Fur and Feather Club as
long as we wood folks have you'd believe that when he laid himself
right out to do a thing, it would come pretty near to being finished
'way down to the ground," Mr. Bunny Rabbit said as he continued his
story, after a pause no longer than might be necessary in which to
draw a long breath. "Mr. Crow as well as said that we folks in the big
woods wouldn't have any more trouble with Jimmy Hedgehog after he got
through with him, and I counted that he'd come pretty near keeping his
word.

"If he hadn't said that he couldn't work his plan without Mr. Turtle,
I'd been perfectly willing to stay at home till he finished the job,
whatever it might be; but when he talked as if old Slowly was the only
one who could help him, I got agitated. Just think of it! Getting a
fellow to help you who makes a two-days' journey of it from the pond
to the big oak! It twisted me terribly to figure out what Mr. Turtle
could do to help the president, and I really had to leave home the
very minute Mrs. Bunny was willing, to see how the thing was going to
be worked.

"The first place I struck for was th