AN EXCITING CHASE


You remember that Doctor Rabbit started out to find Brushtail the Fox
and watch him. Well, it was not long before Brushtail was found, and
it certainly was exciting for Doctor Rabbit to watch what happened.
This is the way it happened. It was Yappy who found Brushtail. Doctor
Rabbit was hopping along, looking for Brushtail, when Yappy came
tearing through the woods and almost ran into Brushtail.

You see, Brushtail saw Yappy coming, but he thought Yappy would pass
by because he had not as yet smelled the trail. These things Brushtail
always knows. But Yappy passed so close he smelled fox, and then
Brushtail certainly did have to jump and run.

Doctor Rabbit just sprang up on the trunk of a fallen tree to watch
the race. All of a sudden he saw Farmer Roe and his boy running toward
Yappy, and with them was another big dog which joined in the chase
after Brushtail.

"It's a fox! a fox! It's that old fox!" shouted Farmer Roe's boy.
"Catch him, Yappy! Catch him! catch him!" The second big hound turned
Brushtail back so that he almost ran into Farmer Roe before he saw
him.

Farmer Roe threw a stick at Brushtail but missed him.