`` I simply have to kick and dance ! I can not help but gaily prance ! Somehow I feel it in my toes Whenever gentle South Wind blows . '' So sang Peter Rabbit as he hopped and skipped down the Lone Little Path . Suddenly he stopped right in the middle of the verse . He sat up very straight and stared down at Johnny Chuck 's house . Some one was sitting on Johnny Chuck 's door-step . It looked like Johnny Chuck . No , it looked like the shadow of Johnny Chuck . Peter rubbed his eyes and looked again . Then he hurried as fast as he could , lipperty-lipperty - lip . The nearer he got , the less like Johnny Chuck looked the one sitting on Johnny Chuck 's door-step . Johnny Chuck had gone to sleep round and fat and roly-poly , so fat he could hardly waddle . This fellow was thin , even thinner than Peter Rabbit himself . He waved a thin hand to Peter . `` Hello , Peter Rabbit ! I told you that I would see you in the spring . How did you stand the long winter ? '' That certainly was Johnny Chuck 's voice . Peter was so delighted that in his hurry he fell over his own feet .
`` Is it really and truly you , Johnny XXXXX ? ''
Chuck Peter Rabbit door-step eyes fat fellow lipperty-lipperty right winter