strength to keep it. It was all fair enough, and you know there
isn't the least use in crying over spilled milk, as the saying is.
We simply have got to be smart enough not to let him fool us again.
I guess we won't get any more of Bowser's dinners for a while.
We've got to think of some other way of filling our stomachs when
the hunting is poor. I think if I could have just one of those fat
hens of Farmer Brown's, it would put new strength into my old bones.
All summer I warned you to keep away from that henyard, but the time
has come now when I think we might try for a couple of those hens."

Reddy pricked up his ears at the mention of fat hens. "I think so too,"
said he. "When shall we try for one?"

"To-morrow morning," replied Granny. "Now don't bother me while I
think out a plan."



CHAPTER XXII: Granny Fox Plans To Get A Fat Hen

Full half success for Fox or Man
Is won by working out a plan.
- Old Granny Fox.

Granny Fox knows this. No one knows it better. Whatever she does
is first carefully planned in her wise old head. So now after she
had decided that she and Reddy would try for one of Farmer Brown's
fat hens, she lay down to think out a plan to get that fat hen.
No one knew better than she how foolish it would be to go over to
that henyard and just trust to luck for a chance to catch one of