Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-06-01
LLTIILES0R!Es
6fBEDTInE
BY THORNTON w. BURGESS.
Copyright. 1915. By 7. ". Bursesas
.Reddy COX Bides and -Broods.

To bide means to wait and to brood
means to keep thinking and thinking
about unpleasant things. Reddy Fox
was doing both up in the Old Pasture
You remember that that is where he
went after his unpleasant meeting
with Jimmy Skunk. 1t was the only
place for him to go because of that
dreadful perfume which Jimmy skunk
had thrown on him. He just had to
go away by himself, and the most lone
ly place he knew of was up there in
the Old Pasture. He kept out of sight
as much as possible, only coming out
at night to hunt for his food He was
ashamed to be seen and still more
ashamed to be smelled, and no one
could go anywhere near him without
smelling that perfume of Jimmy
Skunk's.
II wasn't so much that no one but
Jimmy Skunk himself liked that per-
fume that made Reddy ashamed. No.
he knew that when his neighbors
that he hadn't been smart enough to
keep out of trouble with Jimmy Skunk.
They would know without being told
that Jimmy had had the best of that
meeting. The truth is il WAS because
his pride had had q regular topsy -turvy
tumble that Reddv felt so ashamed.
You know he is very smart. He knows
il. too In fact he likes to think him
self the smartest of all the little
meadow and forest people. And so it
hurt his pride dreadfuliy to have his
neighbors know that he had been in
trouble with Jimmy skunk and got the
worst of II.
But what hurt his pride still more
had been at the bottom of that trouble
and had planned to get him into it. 1t
was only suspicion at first. but the
more he thought about it the more GER
tain he became in his own mind that
Peter had planned to make him run
against that barrel
Il believe he knew all the time that
Jimmy Skunk was inside and that that
barrel would roll down hill if ! hit
it hard enough. AT first ! thought it
was all an accident, but now I'm not
so sure about it," he muttered Il be-
lieve Peter Rabbit did II just to get
me in this fix. II ever | get hold of
him he'll wish he hadn't. He'll wish
he'd never been born, That's what
he'll Wish-hell wish he'd never been
born Reddy glared at nothing the
way he would have gIared at Peter had
he been there. Somehow it made him
dreadful! threats. | suspect that he
would nave felt better yet If he had
known all that had happened to Peter.
But he didn't know, so he kept by
ni'nseif and nursed a growing temper
and brooded over his wrongs and
planned how he would get even with
Jimmy skunk and Peter Rabbit a very
FOOLISH thing to do. for he knew, as
e'erypody else knew. that he wouldn't
care anger Jimmy Skunk again. AS
Tor Peter Rabbit he never Yet had been
aoIe to catch Peter. It didn't make
! rim feel any better to have Sammy Jaw
ma out where he was staying and
br1ng him word from old Granny Fox
that she didn't want to see him again
really mean that. But Reddy knew
that II wouldn't do for him to go near
her until every bit of that perfume was
gone. ana That would not be for a long
time. SO ne Just sneaked about up in
the Ola pasture and brooded and brood
eded over his troubles, which is a very
Ddo tnlng Tor any one to do, and the
| became
All the time Peter Rabbit and Danny
| meadow Mouse and Johnny Chuck and
| the other little people whom Reddy If
| forever Trying TO catch were rejoicing
| that they did not have to worry about
| MIN. II was great relief not to have
| TO he watching out for Reddy Fox
every time they poked their heads out
| OF their homes. To be sure old Granny
Fox had to be watched out for, and also
Old Man Coyote. but II is always easier
| to watch out for two than for three
and SO. though Reddy was missed or
the Green Meadows and in the Green
' Forest. it was in very nice way.
\ AT least they thought so. But once