y bed. Reddy Fox and Hooty the Owl
looked so surprised and foolish when they found the Bob Whites were not
there that the willful little Breeze nearly laughed out loud.

Then Reddy Fox and Hooty the Owl hunted here and hunted there, all over
the Brown Pasture, but they couldn't find the Bob Whites.

And the willful little Breeze went back to the juniper tree and curled
himself beside Mr. Bob White to sleep, for he was lonely no longer.

CHAPTER VI REDDY FOX GOES FISHING

One morning when Mr. Sun was very, very bright and it was very, very
warm, down on the Green Meadows Reddy Fox came hopping and skipping down
the Lone Little Path that leads to the Laughing Brook. Hoppity, skip,
skippity hop! Reddy felt very much pleased with himself that sunny
morning. Pretty soon he saw Johnny Chuck sitting up very straight close
by the little house where he lives.

"Johnny Chuck, Chuck, Chuck! Johnny Chuck, Chuck, Chuck! Johnny
Woodchuck!" called Reddy fox.

Johnny Chuck pretended not to hear. His mother had told him not to play
with Reddy Fox, for Reddy Fox was a bad boy.

"Johnny Chuck, Chuck, Chuck! Johnny Woodchuck!" called Reddy again.

This time Johnny turned and looked. He could see Reddy Fox turning
somersaults and chasing his tail and rolling over and over in the little
path.

"Come on!" said Reddy Fox. "Let's go fishing!"

"Can't," said Johnny Chuck, because you know, his mother had told him
not to play with Reddy Fox.

"I'll show you how to catch a fish," said Reddy Fox, and tried to jump
over his own shadow.

"Can't," said good little Johnny Chuck again, and turned away so that he
couldn't see Reddy Fox chasing Butterflies and playing catch with Field
Mice children.

So Reddy Fox went down to the Laughing Brook all alone. The Brook was
laughing and singing on its way to join the Big River. The sky was blue
and the sun was bright. Reddy Fox jumped on the Big Rock in the middle
of the Laughing Brook and peeped over the other side. What do you think
he saw? Why, right down below in a Dear Little Pool were Mr. And Mrs.
Trout and all the little Trouts.

Reddy Fox wanted some of those little Trouts to take home for his
dinner, but he didn't know how to catch them. He lay flat down on the
Big Rock and reached way down into the Dear Little Pool, but all the
little Trouts laughed at Reddy Fox and not one came within reach. Then
Mr. Trout swam up so quickly that Reddy Fox didn't see him coming and
bit Reddy's li