Brushtail the Fox seized her by the neck

"Possibly," suggested Chatty Red Squirrel, "Brushtail will not have a
fallen tree near his new den, nor any other way of making Yappy lose
the trail. And possibly Yappy will smell along old Brushtail's trail
and find him right in his den."

"Don't you ever think Brushtail will be foolish enough to walk
straight along the ground to his den," said Doctor Rabbit. "He's far
too wise for that, no matter where his den is. No, sir, he will make
big jumps sidewise and walk back on his trail and walk in big circles,
and better still, walk for a distance in the Murmuring Brook. Ah!
he'll do a whole lot of things before he goes into his den. Of
course," Doctor Rabbit said softly, "it is possible Farmer Roe may
trap old Brushtail. I saw him working with a trap only this morning."




A FOOLISH OLD HEN


Several days after Doctor Rabbit had talked to his friends under the
big sycamore tree he was hopping along near the edge of the Big Green
Woods when he saw Brushtail the Fox hiding behind a tree and looking
toward Farmer Roe's house.

Doctor Rabbit crept under a big brush pile and looked in the same
direction. What do you suppose Brushtail was watching? Well, he was
looking at a big Plymouth Rock hen coming across the field right