文档介绍：THE ADVENTURES OF REDDY FOX
THE ADVENTURES OF
REDDY FOX
BY THORNTON W. BURGESS
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THE ADVENTURES OF REDDY FOX
I. Granny Fox Gives Reddy a Scare
Reddy Fox lived with Granny Fox. You see, Reddy was one of a large
family, so large that Mother Fox had hard work to feed so many hungry
little mouths and so she had let Reddy go to live with old Granny Fox.
Granny Fox was the wisest, slyest, smartest fox in all the country round,
and now that Reddy had grown so big, she thought it about time that he
began to learn the things that every fox should know. So every day she
took him hunting with her and taught him all the things that she had
learned about hunting: about how to steal Farmer Brown's chickens
without awakening Bowser the Hound, and all about the thousand and one
ways of fooling a dog which she had learned.
This morning Granny Fox had taken Reddy across the Green
Meadows, up through the Green Forest, and over to the railroad track.
Reddy had never been there before and he didn't know just what to make
of it. Granny trotted ahead until they came to a long bridge. Then she
stopped.
"Come here, Reddy, and look down," manded.
Reddy did as he was told, but a glance down made him giddy, so giddy
that he nearly fell. Granny Fox grinned.
"Come across," said she, and ran lightly across to the other side.
But Reddy Fox was afraid. Yes, Sir, he was afraid to take one step on
the long bridge. He was afraid that he would fall through into the water or
onto the cruel rocks below. Granny Fox ran back to where Reddy sat.
"For shame, Reddy Fox!" said she. "What are you afraid of? Just don't
look down and you will be safe enough. e along over with me."
But Reddy Fox hung back and begged to go home and whimpered.
Suddenly Granny Fox sprang to her feet, as if in great fright. "Bowser the
Hound! Come, Reddy, come!" she cried, and started across the bridge as
fast as she could go.
Reddy didn't stop to look or to think. His one idea was to ge