"There!" cried Granny, when at last she had to stop because she was
quite out of breath. "Perhaps that will teach you to be respectful
to your elders. I was careless and stupid, and I am perfectly ready
to admit it, because it has taught me a lesson. Wisdom often is
gained through mistakes, but never when one is not willing to admit
the mistakes. No Fox lives long who makes the same mistake twice.
And those who are impudent to their elders come to no good end.
I've got a fat goose hidden away for dinner, but you will get none
of it."
"I -- I wish I'd never heard of Granny's mistake," whined Reddy to
himself as he crept dinnerless to bed.
"You ought to wish that you hadn't been impudent," whispered a small
voice down inside him.
CHAPTER XI: After The Storm
The joys and the sunshine that make us glad;
The worries and troubles that makes us sad
Must come to an end; so why complain
Of too little sun or too much rain?
- Old Granny Fox.
The thing to do is to make the most of the sunshine while it lasts,
and when it rains to look forward to the corning of the sun again,
knowing that conic it surely will. A dreadful storm was keeping the
little people of the Green Forest, the Green Meadows, and the Old
Orchard prisoners in their own homes or in such places of shelter as
they had been able to find.
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