Sammy Jay alone
he wouldn't have believed. Then Tommy Tit and Sammy Jay told Reddy all
about what they had seen, how Farmer Brown's boy had surprised Old Granny
Fox and then allowed her to go unharmed. Reddy had to believe it.
If Tommy Tit said it was so, it must be so. Reddy Fox started off
to hunt up Old Granny Fox and ask her about it. But a sudden thought
popped into his red head, and he changed his mind.
"I won't say a thing about it until some time when Granny scolds me
for being careless," muttered Reddy, with a sly grin. "Then I'll see
what she has to say. I guess she won't scold me so much after this."
Reddy grinned more than ever, which wasn't a bit nice of him.
Instead of being sorry that Old Granny Fox had had such a fright, he
was planning how he would get even with her when she should scold
him for his own carelessness.
CHAPTER X: Reddy Fox Is Impudent
A saucy tongue is dangerous to possess;
Be sure some day 't will get you in a mess.
- Old Granny Fox.
Reddy Fox is headstrong and, like most headstrong people, is given
to thinking that his way is the best way just because it is his way.
He is smart, is Reddy Fox. Yes, indeed, Reddy Fox is very, very
smart. He has to be in order to live. But a great deal of what he
knows he learned from Old Granny Fox. The very best tricks he knows
she taught him.
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