"Yes!" she said, "if you won't step in the deep snow." So Jimmy went outside and watched his friends.
"Come on, Jimmy!" they cried. "Tommy Fox has taught us a new game. It's fox-and-geese!"
But Jimmy Rabbit shook his head.
"I can't!" he said. "I'm too busy."
"Ho! Jimmy Rabbit has to work!" somebody cried.
But Jimmy Rabbit smiled.
"Maybe you'd call it work," he said. "But I call it a good deal of fun.... I'm forming a club," he told them.
"A club? What's that?" asked Frisky Squirrel.
"It's a jolly band of fellows," Jimmy told him. "Sort of a secret society, you know. We'll have all kinds of fun."