Who Broke the Eggs?

Early in the morning, when Ribbit the rabbit was heading the strawberry patch, he ran into his friend Racket the racoon . Racket was all out of breath,"Have you heard about Mrs. Grouse's eggs?  Somebody broke her eggs." " How could that happen, Racket?' asked Ribbit. 'Mrs. Grosse is always very careful to protect her eggs." Well, I heard that last night, someone broke into her nest and scared  her half to death. When she flew off to distract the invader from her eggs, he came in and broke every one of them.

 "Mrs Grosse must feel terrible about the lose", said Ribbit. "We have to get down to the bottom of this Perhaps, Chipper, the chipmunk might know something about this." Chipper knew nothing about about  Mrs. Grooses's broken eggs. So the two boys want over to check out Jimmy the skunk.  Ribbet knocked on his door. "Hey, Jimmy are you awake? asked Ribbet. "I am now, with all your noise". answered Jimmy half asleep. Ribbet asked him if he knew how Mrs. Grosse's eggs were broken.  "Don't look at me, my friend ,"said Jimmy the skunk "I have been asleep all night."

Ribbet, Racket, Chipper and Jimmy decided to go to see Mr. Owl.  He was the wise old owl in the green forest. He would know what to do and find out who broke all the eggs. Mr. Owl was very upset when he heard about Mrs. Grosse 's situation."This is very serious. Who would do a thing like that?"said Mr. Owl with determination.  He never wanted to see any of his little forest creature hurt.  Mr.Owl did know what to do. He calledl a meeting of all the forest animals to meet at Mrs Grosses house under the pine tree, exactly at 3:00 pm this afternoon.  

Everyone arrived early, waiting for Mr. Owl. When he arrived the meeting was called to order and he asked  where they were last night?  They all declared that they were home in bed sleeping, but someone had to be lying.  Who do you think was? Well, we will have to find out.

Ribbit spoke up first,"This morning, I noticed when I was with Mrs. Grosse, that there was three black hairs among the broken eggs " Chipper then added,"I hate to say this, but when I was at your house Jimmy, I saw something yellow on your whiskers.""What you have to say about that Jimmy skunk?"asked Mr. Owl  glaringly under his glasses.  "Have you been lying to all of us?" Jimmy hang his head low.  He was ashamed and felt very guilty.  Mr. Owl called Jimmy the stunk to come up in front of all the animals. Jimmy had to confess that he had  lied and asked for forgiveness.  But, that wasn't all!  Mr. wise ole Owl wanted to make sure that Jimmy the skunk would never do a thing like that again , so he took a board paint brush, stuck it into a bucket of white paint and painted a white stripe right down the back of Jimmy the skunk. "Now, said Mr. Owl, we all will be able to keep our eyes on you to make sure you stay out of trouble! "Whenever you see a skunk with a white stripe down the middle of his back, now,you will know why it was put there.