old Granny Fox stopped in front of the worst-looking old fox
house Reddy had ever seen.

"Here we are!" said she.

"What! Are we going to live in that thing?" cried Reddy. "It
isn't fit for any respectable fox to put his nose into."

"It is where I was born!" snapped old Granny Fox. "If you want to
keep out of harm's way, don't go to putting on airs now.

"Who scorns the simple things of life
And tilts his nose at all he sees,
Is almost sure to feel the knife
Of want cut through his pleasant ease.

"Now don't let me hear another word from you, but get inside at
once!"

Reddy Fox didn't quite understand all Granny Fox said, but he
knew when she was to be obeyed, and so he crawled gingerly
through the broken-down doorway.



XXV. Peter Rabbit Makes a Discovery

Hardly had jolly, round, red Mr. Sun thrown off his nightcap and
come out from his home behind the Purple Hills for his daily
climb up in the blue, blue sky, when Farmer Brown's boy started