laughed at him, for hadn't they heard Sammy Jay screaming that very night?

So now Peter sat in the Old Briar-patch thinking and thinking, when he
should have been asleep. Finally he yawned and stretched and then started
along one of his private little paths.

"I'll just run up to the Green Forest and try to find Sammy Jay," he said.

So Peter hunted and hunted all through the Green Forest for Sammy Jay, and
asked everybody he met if they had seen Sammy. But no one had, though every
one took pains to tell Peter that they had heard Sammy in the night. At
last Peter found Sticky-toes the Tree Toad. He was muttering and grumbling
to himself, and he didn't see Peter. Peter stopped to listen, which was, of
course, a very wrong thing to do, and what he heard gave Peter an idea.




XIII


STICKY-TOES THE TREE TOAD POURS OUT HIS TROUBLES

Sticky-toes was quite upset. There was no doubt about it. Either he had
gotten out of the wrong side of his bed that morning, or his breakfast had
disagreed with him, or something had happened to make him lose his temper
completely.

"Don't know what it means! Don't know what it means! Don't know what it
means!" croaked Sticky-toes the Tree Toad, over and over again. "Heard it