Johnny Chuck chuckled to himself as he planned a back door, a beautiful back door, hidden behind a tall clump of meadow grass where no one would think to look for a door. When he had satisfied himself as to just where he would put it, he once more sat up very straight on his nice, new mound and looked this way and looked that way to be sure that no one was near. Then he started for his old home along a secret little path he had made for himself. Pretty soon he came to the Lone Little Path that went past his own home. He danced and he skipped along the Lone Little Path, and, because he was so happy, he tried to turn a somersault. But Johnny Chuck was so round and fat and rolly-poly that he just tumbled over in a heap. "Well, well, well! What's the matter with you?" said a voice close beside him before he could pick himself up. It was Jimmy Skunk, who was out looking for some beetles for his dinner. Johnny Chuck scrambled to his feet and looked foolish, very foolish indeed. "There's nothing the matter with me, Jimmy Skunk," said Johnny. "There's nothing the matter with me. It's just because I've got a secret." "A secret!" cried Jimmy Skunk. "What is it?" "Yes, a secret, a really, truly secret," said Johnny Chuck, and looked very important. "Tell me, Johnny Chuck. Come on, tell just _me_, and then we'll have the secret together," begged Jimmy Skunk. Now Johnny Chuck was so tickled with his secret that it seemed as if he _must_ share it with some one. He just couldn't keep it to himself any longer. "You won't tell any one?" said Johnny Chuck. Jimmy Skunk promised that he wouldn't tell a soul. "Cross your heart," commanded Johnny Chuck. Jimmy Skunk crossed his heart. Then Johnny Chuck looked this way and looked that way to be sure that no one was listening. Finally he whispered in Jimmy Skunk's ear: "I've got a new home under the old apple tree in a corner of the Green Meadows," said Johnny Chuck. Of course Jimmy Skunk was very much surprised and very much interested, so Johnny Chuck told him all about it. "Now, remember, it's a secret," said Johnny Chuck, as Jimmy Skunk started off down the Lone Little Path across the Green Meadows, to look for some beetles. "I'll remember," said Jimmy Skunk. "And don't tell!" called Johnny Chuck. Jimmy Skunk promised that he wouldn't tell. Then Johnny Chuck started off up the Lone Little Path, whistling, and Jimmy Skunk trotted down the Lone Little Path onto the Green Meadows. Jimmy Skunk was thinking so much about Johnny Chuck's new home that he quite forgot to look for beetles, and he almost ran into Peter Rabbit. "Hello, Jimmy Skunk," said Peter Rabbit, "can't you see where you are going? It must be you have something on your mind; what is it?" "I was thinking of Johnny Chuck's new home," said Jimmy Skunk. "Johnny Chuck's new home!" exclaimed Peter Rabbit. "Has Johnny Chuck got a new home? Where is it?"