Reddy looked up angrily. He couldn't see Sammy Jay, but he knew
Sammy's voice. There is no mistaking that. Everybody knows the
voice of Sammy Jay. Of course it was foolish, very foolish 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 just to make him angry, and
that the angrier he became the better pleased Sammy Jay would be.
But like a great many people, Reddy allowed his temper to get the
better of his common sense.

"Who says Granny Fox is stupid?" he snarled.

"I do," replied Sammy Jay promptly. "I say she is stupid."

"She is smarter than anybody else in all the Green Forest and on all
the Green Meadows. She is smarter than anybody else in all the Great
World," boasted Reddy, and he really believed it.

"She isn't smart enough to fool Farmer Brown's boy," taunted Sammy.

"What's that? Who says so? Has anything happened to Granny Fox?" Reddy
forgot his anger in a sudden great fear. Could Granny have been shot
by Farmer Brown's boy?

"Nothing much, only Farmer Brown's boy caught her napping in broad
daylight," replied Sammy, and chuckled so that Reddy heard him.

"I don't believe it!" snapped Reddy. "I don't believe a word of it!
Nobody ever yet caught Old Granny Fox napping, and nobody ever will."