"I think we ought to tell him," Billy said.
So Jimmy Rabbit told Peter what it was.
"I don't know what it means," said Peter.
"Well—say it, anyhow!" Jimmy Rabbit ordered. "And after this, whenever you want anybody to do anything for you, don't forget to say it! It wouldn't do you a bit of harm to practice saying it every day, for a while, until you get used to it."
Peter Mink looked as if he would have liked to do something to Jimmy Rabbit. And for a long time he refused to obey. But when Brownie Beaver said that he simply must go home, because it was so late, Peter Mink said what Jimmy had been waiting for.
It was "Please!"
And no doubt you guessed it long ago.