"I supposed everybody knew that, too," Jimmy Rabbit answered. "It's because I have the left hind-foot of a rabbit."
Peter Mink answered that he didn't see what that had to do with being lucky.
"You ask anybody about it," Jimmy told him. "There's Mr. Crow, over on the fence. Go and ask him why I'm lucky."
So Peter Mink went over to the fence where Mr. Crow was resting, and put the question to him.
"Oh, ask me something hard!" Mr. Crow cried. "That's too easy. Everybody knows that one."
For once Peter Mink remembered the word Jimmy Rabbit had taught him when he was caught beneath the big log.
"Please!" he said. "I'd really like to know, Mr. Crow!"
"Left hind-foot!" Mr. Crow replied briefly. "It's a rabbit's, you know; and[p. 98] there's nothing like 'em to bring luck."
That set Peter Mink to thinking. He couldn't help wishing that he might have Jimmy's left hind-foot for himself. It ought to bring luck to him, he thought, just as it did to Jimmy Rabbit.
After Peter Mink had thought the matter over for some time, he said to Jimmy: