disappeared, pan and all! Bowser couldn't understand it at all.

Back of the shed Granny and Reddy Fox licked that pan clean; licked it
until it was polished. Then, with little sighs of satisfaction, and
every once in a while a chuckle, they trotted happily home.



CHAPTER XIX: Old Man Coyote Does A Little Thinking

Investigate and for yourself find out
Those things which most you want to know about.
- Old Granny Fox.

Never in all his life had Reddy Fox enjoyed a dinner more than that
one he and Granny had stolen from Bowser the Hound. Of course it
would have tasted delicious anyway, because they were so dreadfully
hungry, but to Reddy it tasted better still because it had been
intended for Bowser. Bowser has hunted Reddy so often that Reddy
has no love for him at all, and it tickled him almost to death to
think that they had taken his dinner from almost under his nose.

With that good dinner in their stomachs, Reddy and Granny Fox felt
so much better that the Great World no longer seemed such a cold and
cruel place. Funny how differently things look when your stomach is
full from the way those same things look when it is empty. Best of
all they knew they could play the same sharp trick again and steal
another dinner from Bowser if need be. It is a comforting feeling,
a very comforting feeling, to know for a certainty where you can get
another meal. It is a feeling that Granny and Reddy Fox and many