He was almost too tired to move . Then he began to spit sand out of his mouth and blow it out of his nose and try to wipe it out of his eyes . The long hair of his fine coat was filled full of sand and no one would ever have guessed that this was Reddy Fox . `` Haw ! haw ! haw ! '' shouted Blacky the Crow . Then everybody shouted `` Haw ! haw ! haw ! '' and began to roll in the grass and hold on to their sides once more ; everybody but Reddy Fox . When he could get his breath he did n't look this way or that way , but just sneaked off to his home under the big hickory . -LSB- Illustration : Then everybody shouted `` Haw ! haw ! haw ! '' -RSB- And when Old Mother West Wind came with her big bag to take the Merry Little Breezes to their home behind the Purple Hills , Johnny Chuck waddled back up the Lone Little Path chuckling to himself , for that little feeling of discontent was all gone . He had found that after all he could do something better than anybody else on the Green Meadows , for in his heart he knew that none could dig so fast as he . VII JOHNNY CHUCK 'S SECRET Johnny Chuck pushed up the last bit of gravel from the hole he had dug between the roots of the old apple tree in a corner of the Green Meadows . He smoothed it down on the big , yellow mound he had made in front of his door . Then he sat up very straight on top of the mound , brushed his coat , shook the sand from his trousers and carefully cleaned his hands .
After he had rested a bit , he turned around and looked at his new home , for that is what it was , although he had not come there to live yet , and no one knew of it , no one but jolly , round , red Mr. Sun , who , peeping between the branches of the old apple tree , had caught Johnny XXXXX at work .
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