dandy place." Now right down in his heart Johnny Chuck knew that he ought to go home,

but he couldn't go unless Peter Rabbit would show him the way, and then he did want to see that old house. Perhaps Peter Rabbit was right (in

his heart he knew that he wasn't) and he had better have all the fun he could. So Johnny Chuck followed Peter Rabbit up the hill to the old

house of Jimmy Skunk. Cobwebs covered the doorway. Johnny Chuck was going to brush them away,

but Peter Rabbit stopped him. "Let's see if there isn't a back door," said he. "Then we can use that, and if Bowser the Hound or Farmer

Brown's boy comes along and finds this door they'll think no one ever lives here any more and you'll be safer than if you were right in your

own home." So they hunted and hunted, and by and by Johnny Chuck found the back

door way off at one side and cunningly hidden under a tangle of grass. Inside was a long dark hall and at the end of that a nice big room. It

was very dirty, and Johnny Chuck, who is very neat, at once began to clean house and soon had it spick and span. Suddenly they heard a voice

outside the front door. "Doesn't look as if anybody lives here, but seems as if I smell young

rabbit and--yes, I'm sure I smell young chuck, too. Guess I'll have a look inside."

"It's old Granny Fox," whispered Peter Rabbit, trembling with fright. Then Peter Rabbit did a very brave thing. He remembered that Johnny

Chuck could not run very fast and that if it hadn't been for him, Johnny Chuck would be safe at home. "You stay right here," whispered Peter