"I don't care whether you believe it or not; it's so, for I saw him,"
retorted Sammy Jay.

"You -- you -- you --" began Reddy Fox.

"Go ask Tommy Tit the Chickadee if it isn't true. He saw him too,"
interrupted Sammy Jay.

"Dee, dee, dee, Chickadee! It's so, and Farmer Brown's boy only
threw a snowball at her and let her run away without shooting at her,"
declared a new voice. There sat Tommy Tit himself.

Reddy didn't know what to think or say. He just couldn't believe it,
yet he had never known Tommy Tit to tell an untruth. Sammy Jay alone
he wouldn't have believed. Then Tommy Tit and Sammy Jay told Reddy all
about what they had seen, how Farmer Brown's boy had surprised Old Granny
Fox and then allowed her to go unharmed. Reddy had to believe it.
If Tommy Tit said it was so, it must be so. Reddy Fox started off
to hunt up Old Granny Fox and ask her about it. But a sudden thought
popped into his red head, and he changed his mind.

"I won't say a thing about it until some time when Granny scolds me
for being careless," muttered Reddy, with a sly grin. "Then I'll see
what she has to say. I guess she won't scold me so much after this."

Reddy grinned more than ever, which wasn't a bit nice of him.
Instead of being sorry that Old Granny Fox had had such a fright, he
was planning how he would get even with her when she should scold
him for his own carelessness.