Chapter XIX. Johnny Chuck's Pride - Page 2

"Well, if it is because you think yourself so smart to hide yourself up here in the old orchard, let me tell you that I found you out long ago, and so did Reddy Fox, and Bowser the Hound, and Farmer Brown's boy," sneered Sammy Jay in the most disagreeable way.

"It isn't that," said Johnny Chuck.

"Well, what is it, then?" snapped Sammy Jay.

"That's for you to find out," replied Johnny Chuck.

"There's foolish pride and silly pride and pride of low degree; A better pride is honest pride, and that's the pride for me."

And with that, Johnny Chuck disappeared in his new house.