OLD GRANNY FOX

BY THORNTON W. BURGESS



CHAPTER I: Reddy Fox Brings Granny News

Pray who is there who would refuse
To bearer be of happy news?
- Old Granny Fox.

Snow covered the Green Meadows and the Green Forest, and ice bound
the Smiling Pool and the Laughing Brook. Reddy and Granny Fox were
hungry most of the time. It was not easy to find enough to eat these
days, and so they spent nearly every minute they were awake in hunting.
Sometimes they hunted together, but usually one went one way, and
the other went another way so as to have a greater chance of finding
something. If either found enough for two, the one finding it took
the food back to their home if it could be carried. If not, the
other was told where to find it.

For several days they had had very little indeed to eat, and they were
so hungry that they were willing to take almost any chance to get a
good meal. For two nights they had visited Farmer Brown's henhouse,
hoping that they would be able to find a way inside. But the biddies
had been securely locked up, and try as they would, they couldn't
find a way in.

"It's of no use," said Granny, as they started back home after the