Old Granny Fox E-Book

Thornton W. Burgess

• Herausgeber: Edizioni Savine
• Kategorie: Für Kinder und Jugendliche
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2017

Beschreibung

An excellent animal tale by a master storyteller, with a few illustrations by Harrison Cady. Old Granny Fox and the young Reddy are having a tough time finding food in the winter. Reddy Fox is quite the know-it-all and even mocks the older fox when he doesn't understand what she's doing but Granny is remarkably patient and shows him that he still has a lot to learn. Reddy Fox learns many lessons in life from his Granny.

Leseprobe

OLD GRANNY FOX

by Thornton W. Burgess

With Illustrations by

HARRISON CADY

DEDICATION

TO THE INCREASE OF THE SPIRIT OF MERCY AND

TO THAT GENTLE CHARITY WHICH BEFORE

PASSING JUDGMENT ON ANOTHER WILL

SEEK TO GET THE OTHER'S VIEWPOINT,

EVEN THOUGH THAT OTHER BE BUT A FOX

Digital edition of:

Old Granny Fox

by Thornton W. Burgess

© 1920 by Little, Brown, and Company.

Copyright © 2017 - Edizioni Savine

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ISBN 978-88-99914-41-7

CONTENTS

Chapter I - REDDY FOX BRINGS GRANNY NEWS

Chapter II - GRANNY AND REDDY FOX GO HUNTING

Chapter III - REDDY IS SURE GRANNY HAS LOST HER SENSES

Chapter IV - QUACKER THE DUCK GROWS CURIOUS

Chapter V - REDDY FOX IS AFRAID TO GO HOME

Chapter VI - OLD GRANNY FOX IS CAUGHT NAPPING

Chapter VII - GRANNY FOX HAS A BAD DREAM

Chapter VIII - WHAT FARMER BROWN'S BOY DID

Chapter IX - REDDY FOX HEARS ABOUT GRANNY FOX

Chapter X - REDDY FOX IS IMPUDENT

Chapter XI - AFTER THE STORM

Chapter XII - GRANNY AND REDDY FOX HUNT IN VAIN

Chapter XIII - GRANNY FOX ADMITS GROWING OLD

Chapter XIV - THREE VAIN AND FOOLISH WISHES

Chapter XV - REDDY FIGHTS A BATTLE

Chapter XVI - REDDY IS MADE TRULY HAPPY

Chapter XVII - GRANNY FOX PROMISES REDDY BOWSER'S DINNER

Chapter XVIII - WHY BOWSER THE HOUND DIDN'T EAT HIS DINNER

Chapter XIX - OLD MAN COYOTE DOES A LITTLE' THINKING

Chapter XX - A TWICE STOLEN DINNER

Chapter XXI - GRANNY AND REDDY TALK THINGS OVER

Chapter XXII - GRANNY FOX PLANS TO GET A FAT HEN

Chapter XXIII - FARMER BROWN'S BOY FORGETS TO CLOSE THE GATE

Chapter XXIV - A MIDNIGHT VISIT

Chapter XXV - A DINNER FOR TWO

Chapter XXVI - FARMER BROWN'S BOY SETS A TRAP

Chapter XXVII - PRICKLY PORKY TAKES A SUN BATH

Chapter XXVIII - PRICKLY PORKY ENJOYS HIMSELF

Chapter XXIX - THE NEW HOME IN THE OLD PASTURE

Chapter I - REDDY FOX BRINGS GRANNY NEWS

Pray who is there who would refuse

To bearer be of happy news ?

Old Granny Fox

SNOW covered the Green Meadows and the Green Forest, and ice bound the Smiling Pool and the Laughing Brook. Reddy and Granny Fox were hungry most of the time. It was not easy to find enough to eat these days, and so they spent nearly every minute they were awake in hunting.

Sometimes they hunted together, but usually one went one way, and the other went another way so as to have a greater chance of finding something. If either found enough for two, the one finding it took the food back to their home if it could be carried. If not, the other was told where to find it.

For several days they had had very little indeed to eat, and they were so hungry that they were willing to take almost any chance to get a good meal. For two nights they had visited Farmer Brown's henhouse, hoping that they would be able to find a way inside. But the biddies had been securely locked up, and try as they would, they couldn't find a way in.

"It's of no use" said Granny, as they started back home after the second try, " to hope to get one of those hens at night. If we are going to get any at all, we will have to do it in broad daylight. It can be done, for I have done it before, but I don't like the idea, We are likely to be seen, and that means that Bowser the Hound will be set to hunting us."

" Pooh ! ' exclaimed Reddy. " What of it? It's easy enough to fool him."

" You think so, do you?" snapped Granny. "I never yet saw a young Fox who didn't think he knew all there is to know, and you're just like the rest. When you've lived as long as I have, you will have learned not to be quite so sure of your own opinions. I grant you that when there is no snow on the ground, any Fox with a reasonable amount of Fox sense in his head can fool Bowser, but with snow everywhere it is a very different matter. If Bowser once takes it into his head to follow your trail these days, you will have to be smarter than I think you are to fool him. The only way you will be able to get away from him will be by going into a hole in the ground, and when you do that you will have given away a secret that will mean we will never have any peace at all. We will never know when Farmer Brown's boy will take it into his head to smoke us out. I 've seen it done. No, Sir, we are not going to try for one of those hens in the daytime unless we are starving."

"I'm starving now, " whined Reddy.

" No such thing!' Granny snapped. " I 've been without food longer than this many a time. Have you been over to the Big River lately ? "

" No, " replied Reddy. " What's the use ? It's frozen over. There is n't anything there."

"Perhaps not, " replied Granny, "but I learned a long time ago that it is a poor plan to overlook any chance. There is a place in the Big River which never freezes because the water runs too swiftly to freeze, and I've found more than one meal washed ashore there. You go over there now while I see what I can find in the Green Forest. If neither of us finds anything, it will be time enough to think about Farmer Brown's hens to-morrow, "

Much against his will Reddy obeyed. " It is n't the least bit of use, " he grumbled, as he trotted towards the Big River. " There won't be anything there. It is just a waste of time."

Late that afternoon he came hurrying back, and Granny knew by the way that he cocked his ears and carried his tail that he had news of some kind. " Well, what is it ? " she demanded.

"I found a dead fish that had been washed ashore," replied Reddy. " It was n't big enough for two, so I ate it."

" Anything else ?" asked Granny.

"No-o," replied Reddy slowly; " that is, nothing that will do us any good. Quacker the Wild Duck was swimming about out in the open water, but though I watched and watched he never once came ashore."

" Ha! " exclaimed Granny. " That is good news. I think we 'll go Duck hunting."