`` There 's Peter Rabbit , '' cried one . `` Let 's help him find those tender young carrots ! '' No sooner proposed than off they all raced to see who could reach Peter first . Peter was sitting up very straight , looking this way and looking that way for some tender young carrots , but not one had he found , and his stomach was empty . The Merry Little Breezes stopped just long enough to tickle his long ears and pull his whiskers , then away they raced , scattering in all directions , to see who could first find a tender young carrot for Peter Rabbit . By and by when one of them did find a field of tender young carrots he rushed off , taking the smell of them with him to tickle the nose of Peter Rabbit . Peter wriggled his nose , his funny little nose , very fast when it was tickled with the smell of tender young carrots , and the Merry Little Breeze laughed to see him . `` Come on , Peter Rabbit , for this is my busy day ! '' he cried . Peter Rabbit did n't have to be invited twice . Away he went , lipperty-lipperty-lip , as fast as his long legs could take him after the Merry Little Breeze . And presently they came to the field of tender young carrots . `` Oh thank you , Merry Little Breeze ! '' cried Peter Rabbit , and straightway began to eat his breakfast . Another Merry Little Breeze , slipping up the Crooked Little Path on the hill , spied the hind legs of a fat beetle sticking out from under a flat stone . At once the Little Breeze remembered Jimmy Skunk , who was hunting for beetles for his breakfast . Off rushed the Little Breeze in merry whirls that made the grasses sway and bend and the daisies nod . When after a long , long hunt he found Jimmy Skunk , Jimmy was very much out of sorts . In fact Jimmy Skunk was positively cross . You see , he had n't had any breakfast , for hunt as he would he could n't find a single beetle .
When the Merry Little Breeze danced up behind Jimmy XXXXX and , just in fun , rumpled up his black and white coat , Jimmy quite lost his temper .
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