Do n't you see how safe it is ? '' Polly Chuck had to own up that it was safer than a home in the open could possibly be , and Johnny went on digging . He made a long hall down to the snuggest of bedrooms , deep , deep down under ground . Then he made a long back hall , and all the sand from this he carried out the front way . By and by he made a back door at the end of the back hall , and it opened right behind a big stone fallen from the old stone wall . You would never have guessed that there was a back door there . His new house was finished now , and Johnny Chuck and Polly Chuck sat on the door-step and watched jolly , round , red Mr. Sun go to bed behind the Purple Hills and were happy . XV SAMMY JAY FINDS THE NEW HOME Johnny Chuck was missed from his old home on the Green Meadows . If he had known how much he was missed , he certainly would have tried to go back for at least a call on his old neighbors . There had been great surprise when it had been discovered that Jimmy Skunk was living in Johnny 's old house , and at first some of the little meadow people were inclined to look at Jimmy a wee bit distrustfully when he told how Johnny Chuck had given away his house . When Johnny sent back word by the Merry Little Breezes that it was true , they believed Jimmy Skunk and forgot the unpleasant things that they had begun to hint at about him . But they one and all thought that Johnny Chuck must be crazy . Yes , Sir , they thought that Johnny Chuck must be crazy . They were sure of it when the Merry Little Breezes brought word of how Johnny had started out to see the world . But everybody was so busy about their own affairs in the beautiful bright spring-time that they could n't spend much time wondering about Johnny Chuck . They missed him every time they passed his old house and then forgot him ; that is , most of the little meadow people did . Peter Rabbit did n't . Peter used to stop every day to gossip with Johnny Chuck and tell him all the news , and now that Johnny Chuck was no longer there , Peter missed him greatly . Jimmy Skunk was always asleep or off somewhere . Besides , he was such a traveler that he knew all the news almost as soon as Peter himself .
The Merry Little Breezes told Peter that Johnny Chuck was still on the Green Meadows , hunting for a new home , so XXXXX made up his mind that just as soon as Johnny got settled , Peter would hunt him up and call .
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