Evening star., 1940-07-25


Old Granny Fox muttered this
over and over and over as she kept
walking around uneasily and shifting
the air. Il don't see any trouble
and I don't feel any trouble In the
air. It's all in the sore places where
was shot," said Reddy Fox, who
was stretched out on the doorstep
Of their home.
That's because you haven't got any
sense. When you do get some and
learn to look where you are going
you won't get shot from behind old
tree trunks and you will be able to
feel trouble when it is near without
waiting for it to show itself. Now I
feel trouble You go down into the
house and stay there!" Granny Fox
stopped to test the air with her
nose, just as she had been testing
it for the last 10 minutes.
Il don't want to go in," whined
Reddy Fox. It's nice and warm
out here and I feel lot better than
when 1 am curled up way down
there in the dark"
Old Granny Fox turned and her
ewes blazed as she looked at Reddy
Fox. She didn't say word. She
didn't have to. Reddy just craWled
into his house muttering to himself.
Granny stuck her head in at the
door.
Don't you come out until I come
back" she ordered. Then she add
ed. Farmer Browns Boy is coming
with his gun
Reddy Fox shivered when he
heard that. He didn't believe
Granny Fox. He thought she was
saying that just to scare him and
make him stay inside. But he
shivered just the same. You see,
he knew now what it meant to be
shot. for he was still too stiff and
sore to run, all because he had gone
too near Farmer Browns Boy and
his gun.
But Old Granny Fox had not
been fooling when she told Reddy
Fox that Farmer Browns Boy was
coming with a gun. 1t was true.
He was coming down the Lone Lit
tie Path. and ahead of him was
trotting BoWser the Hound. How
did Old Granny Fox know it? She
| lust felt it. She didn't hear them,
she didn't see them and she didn't
smell them: she Just felt that they
| were coming. So as soon as she
saw that Reddy Fox had obeyed her
she was off like little red flash.
1T won't do to let them find our
home" said Granny to herself as
she disappeared in the Green For
est.
First she hurried to a little point
on the hill where she could look
down the Lone Little Path. Just
as she expected, she saw Farmer
Browns Boy, and, ahead OF him,
, shifting at every bush and all along
the Lone Little Path, was Bowser
the Hound. Old Granny Fox waited
to see no more. She ran as fast as
she could III a big circle. which
brought her out on the Lone Little
Path below Farmer Browns Boy
and BoWser the Hound, but where
they couldn't see her because of a
turn in the Lone Little Path. She
trotted down the Lone Little Path
a very little way and then turned
into the woods and hurried back up
the hill, where she sat down and
waited. In few minutes she heard
Bowser's great voice. He had smelled
her track in the Lone Little Path
and was following it. Old Granny
Fox grinned. You see, she was
planning to lead them far, far away
from the home where Reddy Fox
was hiding for it would not do to
have them find 1t.
And Farmer Browns Bov also
grinned as he heard the voice Of
BoWser the Hound.
III hunt that fox until I get
him." he said. You see. he didn't
know anything about Old Granny
Fox; he thought Bowser was fol-
lowing Reddy Fox.