Billy Woodchuck said nothing more just then. But in a little while he asked his mother another question:
“Is it because they are in Farmer Green’s garden that you call them green peas, Mother?”
VIII
A NEW GAME
Billy Woodchuck and Jimmy Rabbit often played together. Though they did not look the least bit alike, they agreed almost perfectly in one thing: they liked the same good things to eat. There was no place they would rather go than Farmer Green’s garden.
But after he had had a bad fright one day, when dog Spot chased him away from the lettuce-bed, Jimmy Rabbit did not go near the garden for a long time. But he could not forget the taste of that crisp lettuce. So one day he said to Billy Woodchuck:
“How would you like to play a new game?”
“What is it?” Billy asked. “If it’s fun, of course I’d like it.”