“I saw Jimmy Skunk,” said Johnny Chuck, “and Jimmy seemed very, very sleepy. It seemed to me that his whiskers were yellow.”
“That will do,” said Old Dame Nature, and then she called Old Mother West Wind.
“What time did you come down on the Green Meadows this morning?”
“Just at the break of day,” said Old Mother West Wind, “as Mr. Sun was coming up from behind the Purple Hills.”
“And whom did you see so early in the morning?” asked Old Dame Nature.
“I saw Bobby Coon going home from old Farmer Brown's cornfield,” said Old Mother West Wind. “I saw Hooty the Owl coming back from the lower end of the Green Meadows. I saw Peter Rabbit down in the berry patch. Last of all I saw something like a black shadow coming down the Lone Little Path toward the house of Jimmy Skunk.”
Every one was looking very hard at Jimmy Skunk. Jimmy began to look very unhappy and very uneasy.
“Who wears a black coat?” asked Dame Nature.
“Jimmy Skunk!” shouted all the little meadow folks.
“What MIGHT make whiskers yellow?” asked Old Dame Nature.