Sammy Jay and Blacky the Crow had gone to bed when Mr. Sun went
down behind the Purple Hills. Jerry Muskrat, Billy Mink, Little
Joe Otter, Grandfather Frog and Spotty the Turtle had not left
the Smiling Pool. Bobby Coon had been down in Farmer Brown's
cornfield. Hooty the Owl had been hunting in the lower end of the
Green Meadows. Peter Rabbit had been down in the berry patch. Mr.
Toad had been under the piece of bark which he called a house.
Old Dame Nature called on Jimmy Skunk last of all. Jimmy
protested that he had been very, very tired and had gone to bed
very early indeed and had slept the whole night through.

Then Old Dame Nature asked Peter Rabbit what he had found among
the egg shells that morning.

Peter Rabbit hopped out and laid three long black hairs before
Old Dame Nature. "These," said Peter Rabbit "are what I found
among the egg shells."

Then Old Dame Nature called Johnny Chuck. "Tell us, Johnny
Chuck," said she, "what you saw when you called at Jimmy Skunk's
house this morning."

"I saw Jimmy Skunk," said Johnny Chuck, "and Jimmy seemed very,
very sleepy. It seemed to me that his whiskers were yellow."

"That will do," said Old Dame Nature, and then she called Old
Mother West Wind.

"What time did you come down on the Green Meadows this morning?"