"Who says Granny Fox is stupid?" he snarled.
"I do," replied Sammy Jay promptly. "I say she is stupid."
"She is smarter than anybody else in all the Green Forest and on all
the Green Meadows. She is smarter than anybody else in all the Great
World," boasted Reddy, and he really believed it.
"She isn't smart enough to fool Farmer Brown's boy," taunted Sammy.
"What's that? Who says so? Has anything happened to Granny Fox?" Reddy
forgot his anger in a sudden great fear. Could Granny have been shot
by Farmer Brown's boy?
"Nothing much, only Farmer Brown's boy caught her napping in broad
daylight," replied Sammy, and chuckled so that Reddy heard him.
"I don't believe it!" snapped Reddy. "I don't believe a word of it!
Nobody ever yet caught Old Granny Fox napping, and nobody ever will."
"I don't care whether you believe it or not; it's so, for I saw him,"
retorted Sammy Jay.
"You -- you -- you --" began Reddy Fox.
"Go ask Tommy Tit the Chickadee if it isn't true. He saw him too,"
interrupted Sammy Jay.
"Dee, dee, dee, Chickadee! It's so, and Farmer Brown's boy only
threw a snowball at her and let her run away without shooting at her,"
declared a new voice. There sat Tommy Tit himself.
Reddy didn't know what to think or say. He just couldn't believe it,
yet he had never known Tommy Tit to tell an untruth.
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