Billy Woodchuck and Fatty Coon had come early to Jimmy Rabbit's party. And Jimmy had told them to hang their hats and coats upon his new hat-rack—meaning Nimble Deer's antlers. But when they tried to do as they were bid they found that the antlers were beyond their reach.  
Of course Jimmy Rabbit was most uncomfortable. He coughed and gave Nimble an odd look. He even nodded his head at Nimble behind his guests' backs, thereby¹ doing his best to give Nimble a hint to lower his head.
 
But Nimble Deer couldn't imagine what Jimmy Rabbit meant. Hadn't Jimmy warned him not to move—not even to open his mouth, or chew his cud, or wink²? So Nimble stood like a statue.
 
"I—I see my new hat-rack is too high," Jimmy Rabbit stammered³. "Let me take your hats and coats and I'll hang them up for you while you go and wait for the rest of the company over by the stone wall!"
 
So Billy Woodchuck and Fatty Coon gave their hats and coats to Jimmy.
 
"That's a fine Deer's head," Fatty remarked. "It seems to me I've seen it before somewhere."
 
"Perhaps! Perhaps!" Jimmy Rabbit answered. He wished his guests would move away.
 
"Those antlers remind me of Nimble Deer's," Billy Woodchuck remarked. And he gave Nimble a wink, for he had quickly guessed the secret of the hat-rack and how Jimmy Rabbit had planned to have Nimble at his party and yet keep him out of the crowd.
 
"Is this Deer's head stuffed?" Billy Woodchuck asked Jimmy Rabbit.
 
"Perhaps! Perhaps!" Jimmy muttered. "Move along, please!"
 
Nimble wanted to return that wink that Billy............