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boy. Sammy wouldn't have believed it if any one had told him. No, Sir, he wouldn't. But he had seen it with his own eyes, and it tickled him almost to pieces to think that Old Grann

y Fox was. He had boasted of it so much that everybody was sick of hearing him. When he saw Reddy trotting along t

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sh of Reddy to be angry, and still more foolish to show that he was angry. Had he stopped a minute to think, he would have known that Sammy was saying such a mean, provoking thing jus

ny Fox is stup

my Jay promptly. "I

on all the Green Meadows. She is smarter than anybody else in

h to fool Farmer Brown

anny Fox?" Reddy forgot his anger in a sudden great fe

ht her napping in broad daylight," replied

believe a word of it! Nobody ever yet caught

ieve it or not; it's so, for

ou-" began

ee if it isn't true. He saw h

ly threw a snowball at her and let her run away without shoot

t 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 Tomm

for being careless," muttered Reddy, with a sly grin. "Then I'll see

ing sorry that Old Granny Fox had had such a fright, he was planning how he