The cock peeped and peered to see what they could be.

"What is that you have there?" he asked.

"These are letters I have just got," said Reynard, "won't you help me to
read them, for I don't know how to read writing."

"I'd be so happy, but I dare not read them now," said the cock, "for
here comes a hunter--I see him, I see him with his pouch and gun."

When Reynard heard the cock chattering about a hunter, he took to his
heels as fast as he could.




BRUIN AND REYNARD PARTNERS


Once on a time Bruin and Reynard owned a field in common. They had
a little clearing up in the wood, and the first year they sowed rye.

"Now we must share the crop as is fair and right," said Reynard.
"If you like to have the root, I'll take the top."

Yes, Bruin was ready to do that; but when they had threshed out the
crop, Reynard got all the corn, but Bruin got nothing but roots and
rubbish. He did not like that at all; but Reynard said that was how
they had agreed to share it.