"I'm not!"

"You are!"

All the time Jimmy Skunk was chuckling to himself, and the more
he chuckled the angrier grew old Granny Fox. And all the time
Jimmy Skunk kept moving toward old Granny Fox and Granny Fox kept
backing away, for, like all the other little meadow and forest
people, she has very great respect for Jimmy Skunk's little bag
of scent.

Now, backing off that way, she couldn't see where she was going,
and the first thing she knew she had backed into a bramble bush.
It tore her skirts and scratched her legs. "Ooch!" cried old
Granny Fox.

"Ha! ha! ha!" laughed Jimmy Skunk. "That's what you get for
calling me names.



XIV. Granny Fox Finds What Became of the Chicken

Old Granny Fox was in a terrible temper. Dear, dear, it certainly
was a dreadful temper! Jimmy Skunk laughed at her, and that made
it worse. When he saw this, Jimmy Skunk just rolled over and over
on the ground and shouted, he was so tickled. Of course, it
wasn't the least bit nice of Jimmy Skunk, but you know that
Granny Fox had been calling Jimmy a thief. Then Jimmy doesn't