Hurry, hurry, hurry! Jimmy Skunk, startled by the sight of the hurrying, scurrying Mr. Toad, asks what the matter is!

"I've business to attend to at the Smiling Pool! And I'm late as it is!"

What business can Mr. Toad have at Smiling Pool? And how does Mr. Toad frighten fleet-footed Peter Rabbit himself?

Thornton Burgess, master of children's nature stories, charms and delights us yet again with his countryside adventures.