Across the Smiling Pool and back again they raced and Little Joe Otter was first out on the bank . `` Hurrah for Little Joe Otter ! '' shouted Blacky the Crow . And everybody shouted `` Hurrah ! '' Everybody but Reddy Fox . `` What can you do , Jimmy Skunk ? '' asked Peter Rabbit , dancing up and down , he was so excited . Jimmy Skunk yawned lazily . `` I can throw a wonderful perfume farther than anybody here , '' said Jimmy Skunk . `` 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 .
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