by the time Reddy
was well enough to go, he would have learned better than to do such
a foolish thing as to try to show off by stealing a chicken in broad
daylight, as he had when he brought all this trouble on them.

Down on the Green Meadows, the home of Granny and Reddy Fox had been on
a little knoll, which you know is a little low hill, right where they
could sit on their doorstep and look all over the Green Meadows. It had
been very, very beautiful down there. They had made lovely little paths
through the tall green meadow grass, and the buttercups and daisies had
grown close up to their very doorstep. But up here in the Old Pasture
Granny Fox had chosen the thickest clump of bushes and young trees she
could find, and in the middle was a great pile of rocks. Way in among
these rocks Granny Fox had dug their new house. It was right down under
the rocks. Even in the middle of the day jolly, round, red Mr. Sun could
hardly find it with a few of his long, bright beams. All the rest of the
time it was dark and gloomy there.

No, Reddy Fox didn't like his new home at all, but when he said so old
Granny Fox boxed his ears.

"It's your own fault that we've got to live here now," said she. "It's
the only place where we are safe. Farmer Brown's boy never will find
this home, and even if he did he couldn't dig into it as he did into our
old home on the Green Meadows. Here we are, and here we've got to stay,
all because a foolish little Fox thought himself smarter than anybody
else and tried to show off."

Reddy hung his head. "I don't care!" he said, which was very, very
foolish, because, you know, he did care a very great deal.

And here we will leave wise Old Granny Fox and Reddy, safe, even if
they do not like their new home. You see, Lightfoot the Deer is getting
jealous. He thinks there should be some books about the people of the
Green Forest, and that the first one should be about him. And because we
all love Lightfoot the Deer, the very next book is to bear his name.

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