CHAPTER XX: A Twice Stolen Dinner

No one ever is so smart that some one else
may not prove to be smarter still.
- Old Granny Fox.

Listen and you shall hear all about three rogues. Two were in red and
were Granny and Reddy Fox. And one was in gray and was Old Man Coyote.
They were the slyest, smartest rogues on all the Green Meadows or in
all the Green Forest. All three had started out to steal the same
dinner, but the funny part is they didn't intend to steal it from
the same person. And still funnier is it that one of them didn't
even know where that dinner was or what kind of a dinner it would be.

True to his resolve to know what Granny and Reddy Fox were getting
to eat, and where they were getting it, Old Man Coyote hid where he
could see what was going on about Farmer Brown's, for it was there
he felt sure that Granny and Reddy were getting food. He had
waited only a little while when along came Granny and Reddy Fox
past the place where Old Man Coyote was hiding. They didn't see him.
Of course not. He took care that they should have no chance. But
anyway, they were not thinking of him. Their thoughts were all of
that dinner they intended to have, and the smart trick by which they
would get it.

So with their thoughts all on that dinner they slipped up behind the
barn and prepared to work the trick which had been so successful
before. Old Man Coyote crept after them. He saw Reddy Fox lie down