`` It would be a lot nicer out in that grassy place , and a lot easier to dig , '' said she . Johnny Chuck smiled and made the dirt fly . `` It certainly would be easier to dig , '' said he , when he stopped for breath , `` easier for me and easier for Bowser the Hound or for old Granny Fox , if either wanted to dig us out . Now , these old roots are just far enough apart for us to go in and out . They make a beautiful doorway . But Bowser the Hound can not get through if he tries , and he ca n't make our doorway any larger . 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 XXXXX they could n't spend much time wondering about Johnny Chuck .
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