XVI SAMMY JAY PLANS MISCHIEF Mischief may not mean to be really truly bad , But somehow it seems to make other people sad ; Does a mean unpleasant thing and tries to think it fun ; Then , alas , it runs away when trouble has begun . Of all the little people who live in the Green Forest and on the Green Meadows , none is more mischievous than Sammy Jay . It seems sometimes as if there was more mischief under that pert little cap Sammy Jay wears than in the heads of all the other little meadow and forest people put together . When he is n't actually in mischief , Sammy Jay is planning mischief . You see it has grown to be a habit with Sammy Jay , and habits , especially bad habits , have a way of growing and growing . Now Sammy Jay had no quarrel with Johnny Chuck . Oh , my , no ! He would have told you that he liked Johnny Chuck . Everybody likes Johnny Chuck . But just as soon as Sammy Jay found Johnny Chuck 's new house , he began to plan mischief . He did n't really want any harm to come to Johnny Chuck , but he wanted to make Johnny uncomfortable . That is Sammy Jay 's idea of fun -- seeing somebody else uncomfortable . So he slipped away to a thick hemlock-tree in the Green Forest to try to think of some plan to tease Johnny Chuck and make him uncomfortable . Of course he knew that Johnny had hidden his new house in the corner of Farmer Brown 's old orchard because he wanted it to be a secret . He did n't know why Johnny wanted it a secret and he did n't care . If Johnny wanted it a secret , it would be fun to tell everybody about it . As he sat wondering who he should tell first ; he saw Reddy Fox trotting down the Lone Little Path . `` Hi , Reddy Fox ! '' he shouted . Reddy looked up .
`` Hello , Sammy XXXXX !
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