l look at it in a different
light when I've shown her how much good you're getting from keeping
company with the other wood folks.'

"Now, I had a pretty good idea that Mrs. Bunny would take a broom to
the president, instead of listening to him, if he went to my home
while Sonny Bunny was so sick and I told him as much, breaking it
gently so he wouldn't get angry; but, bless you, he didn't seem to
mind it. He's been around the world so much that he's got a mighty
good idea of how things may be at a fellow's home when one of the
children has been abused.

"'I'll tell you what it is, Mr. Bunny,' he said, ruffling the feathers
on his neck as he always does when he's got some big scheme in his
mind, 'Jimmy Hedgehog is the one who's responsible for all the trouble
we've been having, and if I can find Mr. Turtle at home I'll rig up a
plan that'll make Mr. Hedgehog wish he'd never been quite so pert with
the president of the Fur and Feather Club. I don't count on letting
that prickly young chap run things his own way around Crow's Corner!'

"'What do you count on doing?' I asked, for I was dreadfully curious
by the time he'd got through talking.

"'Leave it to me, Bunny Rabbit. I've been out of the shell too long to
stand such nonsense from a hedgehog; but at the same time I don't
count on letting you into one of my secrets till the plans are all
laid. We'll go around by the way of your home, and there I'll tell
Mrs. Bunny what you've said about leaving the club. That'll keep her
quiet for a while, or, at least, calm her down so you and she can live
in the same house a bit longer, and if my plan works as I think it
will she'll be so tickled that you won't hear anything more about her
wanting you to keep away from Crow's Corner.'

"Of course I let him have his own way, for, being old, he's so
headstrong that you can't stop him from doing what he's set his mind
on, no matter how foolish it may be; but I wasn't much surprised,
after we came to my home and I'd called Mrs. Bunny out of her hole, to
hear her talk quite disrespectfully to him about the club, which she
declared was nothing more nor less than an excuse for us animals and
birds to idle our time away when we should be at home attending to
household affairs.

"He didn't seem to lose his temper a little bit, even when she talked
the most, but kept on trying to soothe her by saying that the only
trouble we'd ever had in the big woods among ourselves had been caused