the Lone Little Path to his home, dragging his tail, all wet and
muddy, behind him, and dripping water all the way.

Johnny Chuck was still sitting by his door as his mother had told
him to. Reddy Fox tried to go past without being seen, but Johnny
Chuck's bright little eyes saw him.

"Where are your fish, Reddy Fox?" called Johnny Chuck.

"Why don't you turn somersaults, and jump over your shadow and
chase Butterflies and play with the little Field Mice, Reddy
Fox?" called Johnny Chuck.

But Reddy Fox just walked faster. When he got almost home he saw
old Mother Fox sitting in the doorway with a great big switch
across her lap, for Mother Fox had told Reddy Fox not to go near
the Laughing Brook.

And this is all I am going to tell you about how Reddy Fox went
fishing.



CHAPTER VII JIMMY SKUNK LOOKS FOR BEETLES

Jimmy Skunk opened his eyes very early one morning and peeped out
of his snug little house on the hill. Big, round Mr. Sun, with a
very red, smiling face, had just begun to climb up into the sky.
Old Mother West Wind was just starting down to the Green Meadows
with her big bag over her shoulder. In that bag Jimmy Skunk knew