he demanded . `` Your Green Meadows ! Your Green Meadows ! Ho , ho , ho ! Your Green Meadows ! '' The stranger laughed an unpleasant laugh . `` How long since you owned the Green Meadows ? I have just come down on to them from the Old Pasture , and I like the looks of them so well that I think I will stay . So run along , little boaster ! There is n't room for both of us here , and the sooner you trot along the better . '' The stranger suddenly showed all his teeth and gritted them unpleasantly . Now when Johnny Chuck heard this , great anger filled his heart . A stranger had ordered him to leave the Green Meadows where he had been born and always lived ! He could hardly believe his own ears . He , Johnny Chuck , would show this stranger who was master here ! With a squeal of rage , Johnny sprang at the gray old Chuck . Then began such a fight as the Merry Little Breezes of Old Mother West Wind had never seen before . They danced around excitedly and cried : `` How dreadful ! '' and hoped that Johnny Chuck would win , for you know they loved him very much . Over and over the two little fighters rolled , biting and scratching and tearing and growling and snarling .
Jolly , round , red Mr. Sun hid his face behind a cloud , so as not XXXXX see such a dreadful sight .
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