`` We know it ! We know it ! '' shouted the Merry Little Breezes as everybody tumbled heels over head away from Jimmy Skunk , even Reddy Fox . `` But please do n't ! '' And Jimmy Skunk did n't . Then they all came back , Reddy Fox carefully brushing his handsome red coat which had become sadly mussed , he had fled in such a hurry . Now for the first time in his life Johnny Chuck began to feel just a wee , wee bit discontented . What was there he could do better than any one else ? He could n't jump and he could n't climb and he could n't swim . He could n't even run fast , because he was so fat and round and rolly-poly . He quite forgot that he was so sunny-hearted and good-natured that everybody loved him , everybody but Reddy Fox . Just then Reddy Fox began to boast , for Reddy Fox is a great boaster . `` Pooh ! '' said Reddy Fox , `` pooh ! Anybody could jump if their legs were made for jumping . And what 's the good of climbing trees anyway ? Now I can run faster than anybody here -- faster than anybody in the whole world ! '' said Reddy Fox , puffing himself out . `` Chug-a-rum , '' said Grandfather Frog . `` You ca n't beat Spotty the Turtle . ''
Then everyone shouted and rolled over and over in the grass , they were so tickled , for every one remembered how Spotty the Turtle had once won a race from Reddy XXXXX .
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