t until I come back," she ordered. Then she added:
"Farmer Brown's boy is coming with his gun."

Reddy Fox shivered when he heard that. He didn't believe Granny Fox. He
thought she was saying that just to scare him and make him stay inside.
But he shivered just the same. You see, he knew now what it meant to
be shot, for he was still too stiff and sore to run, all because he had
gone too near Farmer Brown's boy and his gun.

But old Granny Fox had not been fooling when she told Reddy Fox that
Farmer Brown's boy was coming with a gun. It was true. He was coming
down the Lone Little Path, and ahead of him was trotting Bowser the
Hound. How did old Granny Fox know it? She just felt it! She didn't hear
them, she didn't see them, and she didn't smell them; she just felt that
they were coming. So as soon as she saw that Reddy Fox had obeyed her,
she was off like a little red flash.

"It won't do to let them find our home," said Granny to herself, as she
disappeared in the Green Forest.

First she hurried to a little point on the hill where she could look
down the Lone Little Path. Just as she expected, she saw Farmer Brown's
boy, and ahead of him, sniffing at every bush and all along the Lone
Little Path, was Bowser the Hound. Old Granny Fox waited to see no more.
She ran as fast as she could in a big circle which brought her out on
the Lone Little Path below Farmer Brown's boy and Bowser the Hound, but
where they couldn't see her, because of a turn in the Lone Little Path.
She trotted down the Lone Little Path a very little way and then turned
into the woods and hurried back up the hill, where she sat down and
waited. In a few minutes she heard Bowser's great voice. He had smelled
her track in the Lone Little Path and was following it. Old Granny Fox
grinned. You see, she was planning to lead them far, far away from the
home where Reddy Fox was hiding, for it would not do to have them find
it.

And Farmer Brown's boy also grinned, as he heard the voice of Bowser the
Hound.

"I'll hunt that fox until I get him," he said. You see, he didn't know
anything about old Granny Fox; he thought Bowser was following Reddy
Fox.

XIX Unc' Billy Possum Gives Warning

"What's the matter with you, Unc' Billy? You look as if you had lost
your last friend." It was Jimmy Skunk who spoke.

Unc' Billy Possum stopped short. He had been hurrying so fast that he
hadn't seen Jimmy Skunk at all.

"Matter enuff, Suh! Matter enuff!"