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The Adventures of Reddy Fox
I. Granny Fox Gives Reddy a Scare
Reddy Fox lived with Granny Fox. You see, Reddy was one of a large
family, so large that Mother Fox had hard work to feed so many hungry
little mouths and so she had let Reddy go to live with old Granny Fox.
Granny Fox was the wisest, slyest, smartest fox in all the country
round, and now that Reddy had grown so big, she thought it about time
that he began to learn the things that every fox should know. So every
day she took him hunting with her and taught him all the things that she
had learned about hunting: about how to steal Farmer Brown’s chickens
without awakening Bowser the Hound, and all about the thousand and one
ways of fooling a dog which she had learned.
This morning Granny Fox had taken Reddy across the Green Meadows, up
through the Green Forest, and over to the railroad track. Reddy had
never been there before and he didn’t know just what to make of it.
Granny trotted ahead until they came to a long bridge. Then she stopped.
“Come here, Reddy, and look down,” she commanded.
Reddy did as he was told, but a glance down made him giddy, so giddy
that he nearly fell. Granny Fox grinned.
“Come across,” said she, and ran lightly across to the other side.
But Reddy Fox was afraid. Yes, Sir, he was afraid to take one step on
the long bridge. He was afraid that he would fall through into the water
or onto the cruel rocks below. Granny Fox ran back to where Reddy sat.