"We'll go with you and help you," Mr. Rabbit told him.
"Oh, you don't need to do that," said Peter Mink.
But Mr. Rabbit insisted.
"One of those hats is mine," he remarked. "And wherever it goes, I go, too," And he beckoned to Mr. Woodchuck to follow.
Well, Peter Mink didn't like that very well. You see, he had planned to go into the woods alone with the money. And nobody likes to have his plans upset. But there was nothing he could say. So they all three went into a thicket of elderberry bushes and counted the money.
"I thought there was more," Peter said. "Maybe we dropped some of the money. You and Mr. Woodchuck had better go back and see if you can find any," he told Mr. Rabbit.
But Mr. Rabbit said that they could just as well all go back together and search along the ground as they went.
"All right!" said Peter Mink. "Well leave these hatfuls right here for a while."
But Mr. Rabbit said he didn't think that would be a safe thing to do. So he picked up one hatful, and told Mr. Woodchuck to carry the other.