When they had learned to mind without waiting to ask why , and had learned the signals which told them just what to do when danger was near , Johnny began to lead them farther and farther away from home . He took them up along the old stone wall and showed them how to find safe hiding-places among the stones . Then he took them off a little way and suddenly gave the danger signal . It was funny , very funny indeed to see the three little Chucks scamper for the old stone wall and crawl out of sight . The first time , two of them tried to squeeze into the same hole together , and each was in such a hurry that he would n't let the other go first . Then both lost their tempers and they began to fight about it , quite forgetting that if there was really any danger near , they surely would come to harm . Such a scolding as Johnny Chuck did give those two little Chucks ! Then he made them try it all over again . Once he found a foot print which Reddy Fox had made in some soft earth during the night , and made each little Chuck smell of it , while he told them all about Reddy and old Granny Fox and how smart and sly they were and how very , very fond they were of tender young Chucks for dinner . The three little Chucks shivered when they smelled of Reddy 's track , and the hair along their backs stood up in a way that was very funny to see . Then Johnny Chuck took them over to the edge of the old orchard , where they could peep out over the Green Meadows . He pointed out old Whitetail the Marshhawk , sailing back and forth over the meadows , and told them how once , when he was a little Chuck and had run away from home , old Whitetail had nearly caught him . He told them about Farmer Brown 's boy and about Bowser the Hound and a great many other things that little Chucks should learn about . Now all the time that Johnny Chuck was teaching these things , he was keeping the sharpest kind of a watch for danger , and there were many times when he would give the danger signal . Then they would all lie flat down in the grass and keep perfectly still , or else scamper as fast as they could along the little paths which Johnny had made , to the safety of the snug home under the old apple-tree . But even the most watchful are surprised sometimes . One morning , when Johnny Chuck had led the three little Chucks farther from home than usual , Farmer Brown 's boy took it into his head to visit the old orchard . Johnny Chuck did not see him coming . You see , the orchard grass had grown so tall that even when he sat up his very straightest , Johnny could not always see over the top of it . So this morning he failed to see Farmer Brown 's boy coming .
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