He was happier than he had ever been in all his life before . You see Johnny Chuck had found the greatest thing in the world . Do you know what it is ? It is called love . XII JOHNNY CHUCK PROVES HIS LOVE These spring days were beautiful days on the Green Meadows . It seemed to Johnny Chuck that the Green Meadows never had been so lovely or the songs of the birds so sweet . He had forgotten all about his old friends , Jimmy Skunk and Peter Rabbit and the other little meadow people . You see , he could n't think of anybody but Polly Chuck , and he did n't want to be with anybody but Polly Chuck . He had even forgotten that he had started out to see the world . He did n't care anything more about the world . All he wanted was to be where Polly Chuck was . Then he was perfectly happy . That was because Johnny Chuck had found the greatest thing in the world , which is love . But Johnny still had one great wish , the wish that he might show Polly Chuck just how brave and strong he was and how well he could take care of her . One morning they were feasting in a patch of sweet clover over near an old stone wall . It was the same stone wall in which Johnny Chuck had escaped from old Whitetail the Marshhawk , when Johnny was a very little fellow . Suddenly Polly gave a little scream of fright . Johnny Chuck looked up to see a dog almost upon her . Johnny 's first thought was to run to the old stone wall . He was nearer to it than Polly was .
Then he saw that that dreadful XXXXX would catch Polly before she could reach the stone wall .
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