OLD GRANNY FOX

By Thornton W. Burgess

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I.    Reddy Fox Brings Granny News

CHAPTER II.   Granny And Reddy Fox Go Hunting

CHAPTER III.   Reddy Is Sure Granny Has Lost Her Senses

CHAPTER IV.   Quacker The Duck Grows Curious

CHAPTER V.   Reddy Fox Is Afraid To Go Home

CHAPTER VI.   Old Granny Fox Is Caught Napping

CHAPTER VII.   Granny Fox Has A Bad Dream

CHAPTER VIII.   What Farmer Brown's Boy Did

CHAPTER IX.   Reddy Fox Hears About Granny Fox

CHAPTER X.   Reddy Fox Is Impudent

CHAPTER XI.   After The Storm

CHAPTER XII.   Granny And Reddy Fox Hunt In Vain

CHAPTER XIII.   Granny Fox Admits Growing Old

CHAPTER XIV.   Three Vain And Foolish Wishes

CHAPTER XVI.   Reddy Is Made Truly Happy

CHAPTER XVII.   Granny Fox Promises Reddy Bowser's Dinner

CHAPTER XVIII.   Why Bowser The Hound Didn't Eat His Dinner

CHAPTER XIX.   Old Man Coyote Does A Little Thinking

CHAPTER XX.   A Twice Stolen Dinner

CHAPTER XXI.   Granny And Reddy Talk Things Over

CHAPTER XXII.   Granny Fox Plans To Get A Fat Hen

CHAPTER XXIII.   Farmer Brown's Boy Forgets To Close The Gate

CHAPTER XXIV.   A Midnight Visit

CHAPTER XXV.   A Dinner For Two

CHAPTER XXVI.   Farmer Brown's Boy Sets A Trap

CHAPTER XXVII.   Prickly Porky Takes A Sun Bath

CHAPTER XXVIII.      Prickly Porky Enjoys Himself

CHAPTER XXIX.   The New Home In The Old Pasture

CHAPTER I: Reddy Fox Brings Granny News

Snow covered the Green Meadows and the Green Forest, and ice bound the Smiling Pool and the Laughing Brook. Reddy and Granny Fox were hungry most of the time. It was not easy to find enough to eat these days, and so they spent nearly every minute they were awake in hunting. Sometimes they hunted together, but usually one went one way, and the other went another way so as to have a greater chance of finding something. If either found enough for two, the one finding it took the food back to their home if it could be carried. If not, the other was told where to find it.

For several days they had had very little indeed to eat, and they were so hungry that they were willing to take almost any chance to get a good meal. For two nights they had visited Farmer Brown's henhouse, hoping that they would be able to find a way inside. But the biddies had been securely locked up, and try as they would, they couldn't find a way in.

"It's of no use," said Granny, as they started back home after the second try, "to hope to get one of those hens at night. If we are going to get any at all, we will have to do it in broad daylight. It can be done, for I have done it before, but I don't like the idea. We are likely to be seen, and that means that Bowser the Hound will be set to hunting us."

"Pooh!" exclaimed Reddy. "What of it? It's easy enough to fool him."

"You think so, do you?" snapped Granny. "I never yet saw a young Fox who didn't think he knew all there is to know, and you're just like the rest. When you've lived as long as I have you will have learned not to be quite so sure of your own opinions. I grant you that when there is no snow on the ground, any Fox with a reasonable amount of Fox sense in his head