rted across the bridge as fast as
she could go.

Reddy didn't stop to look or to think. His one idea was to get away from
Bowser the Hound. "Wait, Granny! Wait!" he cried, and started after her
as fast as he could run. He was in the middle of the bridge before he
remembered it at all. When he was at last safely across, it was to find
old Granny Fox sitting down laughing at him. Then for the first time
Reddy looked behind him to see where Bowser the Hound might be. He was
nowhere to be seen. Could he have fallen off the bridge?

"Where is Bowser the Hound?" cried Reddy.

"Home in Farmer Brown's dooryard," replied Granny Fox dryly. Reddy
stared at her for a minute. Then he began to understand that Granny Fox
had simply scared him into running across the bridge. Reddy felt very
cheap, very cheap indeed. "Now we'll run back again," said Granny Fox.
And this time Reddy did.

II. Granny Shows Reddy a Trick

Every day Granny Fox led Reddy Fox over to the long railroad bridge
and made him run back and forth across it until he had no fear of it
whatever. At first it had made him dizzy, but now he could run across
at the top of his speed and not mind it in the least. "I don't see what
good it does to be able to run across a bridge; anyone can do that!"
exclaimed Reddy one day.

Granny Fox smiled. "Do you remember the first time you tried to do it?"
she asked.

Reddy hung his head. Of course he remembered--remembered that Granny had
had to scare him into crossing that first time.

Suddenly Granny Fox lifted her head. "Hark!" she exclaimed.

Reddy pricked up his sharp, pointed ears. Way off back, in the direction
from which they had come, they heard the baying of a dog. It wasn't the
voice of Bowser the Hound but of a younger dog. Granny listened for a
few minutes. The voice of the dog grew louder as it drew nearer.

"He certainly is following our track," said Granny Fox. "Now, Reddy,
you run across the bridge and watch from the top of the little hill over
there. Perhaps I can show you a trick that will teach you why I have
made you learn to run across the bridge."

Reddy trotted across the long bridge and up to the top of the hill, as
Granny had told him to. Then he sat down to watch. Granny trotted out in
the middle of a field and sat down. Pretty soon a young hound broke out
of the bushes, his nose in Granny's track. Then he looked up and saw
her, and his voice grew still more savage and eager. Granny Fox star