The Adventures of Fleetfoot and Her Fawns

father. And he had heard his father tell how he had chased the d

had he wanted to. He just thought it would be fun to play that he was Father Red Fox and give them a good scare. (But how were the fawns to

direction, leaving the fawns unprotected, than he pranced

at them in his high-

y, when danger was almost upon them? They were certainly no

raced through the brush, leaping over bush and bri

nd brier and boulder. And he came lea

prints that led through brush head high,-up hill, down hill the trio s

while Frisky, having paused for a moment when his tail got caught in a bramble, had

hat lay cupped among hillocks of seedling pines. But looking back at every seventh leap or so, they could see that the fox pup fo

that is, merrily on the fox's part), t

hould have seen the ducks take flight as these two

and the hounds have no scent to follow. Then, unless there is a hunter

nd understood so well this trick of taking to water, (for he escaped the hounds t

ld rest. And the fox pup didn't think it worth while to get his fur wet. For when his great brush of a tail

cleverness, and you should have heard them tell

that stirred everywhere about them, their g

other Grouse Hen, calling to her chicks to

e testing the air for a taint), Mother Grouse Hen would give a different sort of cluck; and back the frightened chicks would come to

hat told them how she loved them, and how saf

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