news, Reddy Fox! Just as if I could tell you any news!" he exclaimed.
"Why, everybody knows that you are so smart that you find out
everything as soon as it happens."

Reddy Fox felt flattered. You know people who do a great deal of
flattering themselves are often the very easiest to flatter if you
know how. Reddy pretended to be very modest; but no one likes to be
thought smart and important more than Reddy Fox does, and it pleased
him greatly that Sammy Jay should think him so smart that no one could
tell him any news. Sammy knew this perfectly well, and he chuckled to
himself as he watched Reddy Fox pretending to be so modest.

"Have you called on Johnny Chuck at his new home yet?" asked Sammy
Jay, in the most matter-of-fact way.

"No," replied Reddy, "but I mean to, soon." He said this just as if he
knew all about Johnny Chuck's new home, when all the time he hadn't
the remotest idea in the world where it was. In fact he had hunted and
hunted for it, but hadn't found a trace of it. And all the time Sammy
Jay knew that Reddy didn't know where it was. But Sammy didn't let on
that he knew.

"I just happened to be up in Farmer Brown's old orchard this morning,
so I thought I'd pay Johnny Chuck a call," said Sammy, and chuckled as
he saw Reddy's ears prick up. "By the way, he thinks you don't know
where he lives now."

"Huh!" said Reddy Fox. "As if Johnny Chuck could fool me! Well, I must
be moving along. Good-by, Sammy Jay."