The Adventures of Johnny Chuck

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Title: The Adventures of Johnny Chuck
Author: Thornton W. Burgess
Release Date: June, 2004 [EBook #5844] [Yes, we are more than one year ahead of schedule] [This file was first posted on September 11, 2002]
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THE BEDTIME STORY BOOKS
THE ADVENTURES OF JOHNNY CHUCK
BY
THORNTON W. BURGESS Author of "Old Mother West Wind," "The Adventures of Reddy Fox," etc.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER
I. GENTLE SISTER SOUTH WIND ARRIVES
II. JOHNNY CHUCK RECEIVES CALLERS
III. THE SINGERS OF THE SMILING POOL
IV. JOHNNY CHUCK FINDS OUT WHO THE SWEET SINGERS ARE
V. JOHNNY CHUCK BECOMES DISSATISFIED
VI. JOHNNY CHUCK TURNS TRAMP
VII. JOHNNY'S FIRST ADTENTURE
VIII. JOHNNY HAS ANOTHER ADVENTURE
IX. ANOTHER STRANGE CHUCK
X. WHY JOHNNY CHUCK DIDN'T FIGHT
XI. THE GREATEST THING IN THE WORLD XII. JOHNNY CHUCK PROVES HIS LOVE
XIII. POLLY AND JOHNNY CHUCK GO HOUSE HUNTING
XIV. A NEW HOME AT LAST
XV. SAMMY JAY FINDS THE NEW HOME
XVI. SAMMY JAY PLANS MISCHIEF
XVII. MORE MISCHIEF
XVIII. FARMER BROWN'S BOY MAKES A DISCOVERY
XIX. JOHNNY CHUCK'S PRIDE
XX. SAMMY JAY UNDERSTANDS
XXI. SAMMY JAY HAS A CHANGE OF HEART
XXII. JOHNNY CHUCK IS KEPT BUSY
XXIII. THE SCHOOL IN THE OLD ORCHARD
XXIV. SAMMY JAY PROVES THAT HE IS NOT ALL BAD

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
JOHNNY CHUCK BADE CHATTERER GOOD-BY AND STARTED ON Frontispiece
"IS IT REALLY AND TRULY YOU, JOHNNY CHUCK?" HE CRIED
"HO, HO, HO! THAT'S THE BEST JOKE THIS SPRING!" SHOUTED JERRY MUSKRAT
WITH A SQUEAL OF RAGE, JOHNNY SPRANG AT THE GRAY OLD CHUCK
IF POLLY WANTED TO LIVE THERE SHE SHOULD
"HAVE YOU CALLED ON JOHNNY CHUCK AT HIS NEW HOME YET?" ASKED SAMMY JAY

I
GENTLE SISTER SOUTH WIND ARRIVES
"Good news, good news for every one, above or down below, For Master Winsome Bluebird's come to whistle off the snow!"
All the Green Meadows and all the Green Forest had heard the news. Peter Rabbit had seen to that. And just as soon as each of the little meadow and forest folks heard it, he hurried out to listen for himself and make sure that it was true. And each, when he heard that sweet voice of Winsome Bluebird, had kicked up his heels and shouted "Hurrah!"
You see they all knew that Winsome Bluebird never is very far ahead of gentle Sister South Wind, and that when she arrives, blustering, rough Brother North Wind is already on his way back to the cold, cold land where the ice never melts.
Of course Winsome Bluebird doesn't really whistle off the snow, but after he comes, the snow disappears so fast that it seems as if he did. It is surprising what a difference a little good news makes. Of course nothing had really changed that first day when Winsome Bluebird's whistle was heard on the Green Meadows and in the Green Forest, but it seemed as if everything had changed. And it was all because that sweet whistle was a promise, a promise that every one knew would come true. And so there was joy in all the hearts on the Green Meadows and in the Green Forest. Even grim old Granny Fox felt it, and as for Reddy Fox, why, Reddy even shouted good-naturedly to Peter Rabbit and hoped he was feeling well.
And then gentle Sister South Wind arrived. She came in the night, and in the morning there she was, hard at work making the Green Meadows and the Green Forest ready for Mistress Spring. She broke the icy bands that had bound the Smiling Pool and the Laughing Brook so long; and the Smiling Pool began to smile once more, and the Laughing Brook to gurgle and then to laugh and finally to sing merrily.
She touched the little banks of snow that remained, and straightway they melted and disappeared. She kissed the eight babies of Unc' Billy Possum, and they kicked off the bedclothes under which old Mrs. Possum had tucked them