CHAPTER XVIII: The Hunter Loses His Temper

The hunter, hidden near the pond of Paddy the Beaver, chuckled silently. That is to say, he laughed without making any sound. The hunter thought the warning of Mr. and Mrs. Quack by Sammy Jay was a great joke on Reddy. To tell the truth, he was very much pleased. As you know, he wanted those Ducks himself. He suspected that they would stay in that little pond for some days, and he planned to return there and shoot them after he had got Lightfoot the Deer. He wanted to get Lightfoot first, and he knew that to shoot at anything else might spoil his chance of getting a shot at Lightfoot.

"Sammy Jay did me a good turn," thought the hunter, "although he doesn't know it. Reddy Fox certainly would have caught one of those Ducks had Sammy not come along just when he did. It would have been a shame to have had one of them caught by that Fox. I mean to get one, and I hope both of them, myself."

Now when you come to think of it, it would have been a far greater shame for the hunter to have killed Mr. and Mrs. Quack than for Reddy Fox to have done so. Reddy was hunting them because he was hungry. The hunter would have shot them for sport. He didn't need them. He had plenty of other food. Reddy Fox doesn't kill just for the pleasure of killing.

1. Who wants to kill something?
2. Who does he think did him good?
3. Did he realize this?
4. What would have happened if Sam hadn't been there?
5. Why didn't he want one gotten?
6. Did he laugh loudly?
7. Where was he?
8. Whose pond?
9. Was he out in the open?
10. How long did he believe the ducks would stick around?
11. Was he going to knife them?
12. Then what?
13. Are those the only animals he was going to murder?
14. Who else then?
15. What kind of animal was that?
16. Why did he want that one first?
17. Was he murdering them for survival?
18. Then why?
19. So he already had sustenance?
20. Why would the fox have murdered them?

Provide a numbered list of answers.
1. The hunter
2. Sammy Jay
3. no
4. Reddy Fox would have caught a Duck
5. he wanted both himself
6. no
7. near the pond
8. Paddy the Beaver
9. no
10. for some days
11. no
12. he planned to shoot them
13. no
14. Lightfoot
15. a Deer
16. because he knew that to shoot at anything else might spoil his chance of getting a shot at Lightfoot
17. no
18. for sport.
19. yes
20. because he was hungry