Buzz-buzz-buzz , '' grumbled Bumble the Bee . The Merry Little Breezes looked at the million little flowers on the Green Meadows , each waiting a sack of gold to give and a sack of gold to receive . Then they looked at each other and shouted happily , for they too would now be able to cry `` busy , busy , busy . '' From flower to flower they hurried , each with a bag of gold over his shoulder . Wherever they left a bag they took a bag , and all the little flowers nodded happily to see the Merry Little Breezes at work . Jolly , round , red Mr. Sun climbed higher and higher and higher in the blue sky , where he can look down and see all things , great and small . His smile was broader than ever as he watched the hurrying , scurrying Little Breezes working instead of playing . Yet after all it was a kind of play , for they danced from flower to flower and ran races across bare places where no flowers grew . By and by the Merry Little Breezes met Peter Rabbit . Now Peter Rabbit had made a good breakfast of tender young carrots , so he felt very good , very good indeed . `` Hi ! '' shouted Peter Rabbit , `` come play with me . '' `` Ca n't , '' cried the Merry Little Breezes all together , `` we have work to do ! '' Off they hurried , while Peter Rabbit stretched himself out full length in a sunny spot , for Peter Rabbit also is a lazy fellow . Down the Crooked Little Path onto the Green Meadows came Jimmy Skunk . `` Ho ! '' shouted Jimmy Skunk as soon as he saw the Little Breezes , `` come play with me . '' `` Ca n't , '' cried the Little Breezes , `` for we are busy , busy , busy , '' and they laughed happily . When they reached the Laughing Brook they found Billy Mink curled up in a round ball , fast asleep . It is n't often that Billy Mink is caught napping , but he had had a good breakfast of trout , he had found no one to play with and , as he never works and the day was so bright and warm , he had first looked for a place where he thought no one would find him and had then curled himself up to sleep , One of the Little Breezes laid down the bag of gold he was carrying and creeping ever so softly over to Billy Mink began to tickle one of Billy 's ears with a straw .
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