oxes. They
went into a hole under some rocks by a large papaw bush. "So that,"
said Doctor Rabbit to himself, "is where Mr. and Mrs. Brushtail and
their little Brushies have their den."

Brushtail did not run into the thicket with Mrs. Brushtail and the
little foxes. When he saw Yappy coming toward the thicket he ran right
toward the excited dog and then hid behind another thicket. When Yappy
came near, Brushtail sprang right out, and away he ran. Yappy bayed
loudly, and away he went through the woods after Brushtail. You see
now what Brushtail was doing--he was leading Yappy away from that den
of little foxes!

JACK RABBIT SPRAINS HIS FOOT

When Mrs. Brushtail and the four little Brushies ran into the hole in
the thicket and Father Brushtail ran away through the woods with Yappy
in hot pursuit, Doctor Rabbit decided he had better be going. He had
discovered a great deal anyway, and now he wanted to find some of his
friends and tell them about it.

Doctor Rabbit decided first to go over to the Wide Prairie and see his
friend Jack Rabbit. Doctor Rabbit was not much afraid to cross the
Wide Prairie, now that Ki-yi Coyote was gone and Brushtail the Fox was
busy, for the time at least.

Doctor Rabbit had not been over to see Jack Rabbit's family for a long
time, and he was considerably surprised to find Jack Rabbit laid up
with a sprained foot. Jack Rabbit said he had sprained his foot the
day before while running from some terrible creature that looked
somewhat like Ki-yi Coyote and just a little like a dog, but not
exactly like either of them.

"He had a large, bushy tail," Jack Rabbit explained, "and his coat was
a reddish-brown color. He jumped out from behind some bunch grass and
came at me so swiftly that I jumped and turned quickly. And that was
how I sprained my foot. He certainly is a fierce and dangerous
creature, and I wondered if any of the rest of you had seen him," Jack
Rabbit concluded.

"Indeed we have," Doctor Rabbit replied. "I'll bandage your foot now,"
he continued, "and then we can talk about this new enemy. Mrs. Jack
Rabbit," Doctor Rabbit said looking at her over his gold glasses,
"I'll thank you for that bottle of chloroform liniment I left here
some time ago."

Mrs. Jack Rabbit brought out the bottle of liniment, and after Doctor
Rabbit had bathed Jack Rabbit's foot with some of the liniment he
bandaged it quite snugly.

"That feels fine!" said Jack Rabbit, getting right up and