as ever he could at the doorway Danny had just left. Finally
Reddy had given up in disgust and gone off muttering angrily to
try to find something else for dinner. Danny had sat up on the
snow and watched him go. In his funny little squeaky voice Danny
shouted:

"_Though Reddy Fox is smart and sly,
Hi-hum-diddle-de-o!
I'm just as smart and twice as spry.
Hi-hum-diddle-de-o!_"

That night Reddy Fox told old Granny Fox all about how he had
tried to catch Danny Meadow Mouse. Granny listened with her head
cocked on one side. When Reddy told how fat Danny Meadow Mouse
was, her mouth watered. You see, now that snow covered the Green
Meadows and the Green Forest, Granny and Reddy Fox had hard work
to get enough to eat, and they were hungry most of the time.

"I'll go with you down on the meadows tomorrow morning, and then
we'll see if Danny Meadow Mouse is as smart as he thinks he is,"
said Granny Fox.

So, bright and early the next morning, old Granny Fox and Reddy
Fox went down on the meadows where Danny Meadow Mouse lives.
Danny had felt in his bones that Reddy would come back, so he was
watching, and he saw them as soon as they came out of the Green
Forest. When he saw old Granny Fox, Danny's heart beat a little
faster than before, for he knew that Granny Fox is very smart and
very wise, and has learned most of the tricks of all the other
little meadow and forest people.

"This is going to be a more exciting game than the other," said
Danny to himself, and scurried down out of sight to see that all
his little tunnels were clear so that he could run fast through
them if he had to. Then he peeped out of one of his little
doorways hidden in a clump of tall grass.

Old Granny Fox set Reddy to hunting for Danny's little round
doorways, and as fast as he found them, Granny came up and
sniffed at each. She knew that she could tell by the smell which
one he had been at last. Finally she came straight toward the
tall bunch of grass. Danny ducked down and scurried along one of
his little tunnels. He heard Granny Fox sniff at the doorway he
had just left. Suddenly something plunged down through the snow
right at his very heels. Danny didn't have to look to know that
it was Granny Fox herself, and he squeaked with fright.

V

What Happened on the Green Meadows

Thick and fast, things were happening to Danny Meadow Mouse down
on the snow-covered