s just as w

urselves as

Grann

er and saw Quacker swimming about in the water where it ran too swiftly to freeze. "We've got just

er, and when he had reached the place where Granny wa

Fox, "what shall w

," replied Reddy in such a saucy tone that Gra

ink he can't be caugh

; I know he can't!" snapped Redd

uldn't even try?"

I'm wasting my time," replied

a silly old Fox who has lost h

t," protested Reddy, lo

o just as I tell you. You creep back there where you can watch Quacker

had readied his hiding-place. Then what do you think she did? Why, she walked right out on th

and over. She chased her tail round and round until it made Reddy dizzy to watch her. She jumped up in the air. She raced

dhood. Reddy could remember how he had done such things when he was very young, just by way of showing how fine he felt. But for a grown-up Fox to do such things was undignified, to say the least. You know Reddy thinks a

e whether to go off and leave her until she had regained her common sense, or to go out and try to stop her, when he happened to look out in the open water where Quack

dy, "I believe that fello

, and instead of watching Gran