Show FOX OX AND Tills TUE STOATS T WAS winter tI time is In the woo woods s I IT an and the Four I Four Footed club sat u the tire Ole talking over o their af- af had cooked cooke the last tur- tur rails falis for tor they 2 tey tey nn and the last of tie the wood was now Durning In uIn all my long experience said Mr known food oo to be Fox I uI have ha never ne sc scarce and what there Is of It isSo Is so poor I doubt sometimes If Mr Man I can cnn be feeding ee his fowl as he be should I uI think Mr l Dog gets more than his share said Mr Coon for he be seems strong enough He can run just as ns asfar asfar far as ns ever I cnn can see sec I should not not not- be surprised If It he be blame said Mr Possum for tor r our ur I hard ra luck maybe he eats up everything e that Mr 1 Man Ian gives to the poultry p he hc Is so strong nn and big Very Vcr likely he takes It away from those poor things No It Isn't Mr Dog who Is to blame If I am a guesser sni said Mr l Fox setI setting set set- I l CUR YoU NOw 1 I ting back In his chair and taking from l 11 his mouth his corncob pipe but I t I think I can tell you ou who Is to blanc blaJic j I i for our not h having hing ing ml anything thing In our j pantry II But Mr Fox wished to be asked aske an and did not stop smoking until Mr Coon I could stand It no longer and asked Who Is taking our food 1 Tell Dell us If you know I Well perhaps I should not say he lie away awn fio from 11 us but itt l it right c certainly If It he and amI his family wc were e enot not rr around oun we wc would have no trouble h In getting plenty to too eat cat But nut who Is It asked Mr Possum edge of his chair sitting slUIng on the Ue very edge with Impatience Who Is It Mr Fox Fog Tell us that When Mr Fox lm had begun to fill his pipe he said It Is Mr Stoat an and family Yes that whole up stuck-up ly t are ure to blame and when I think of that thai miserable sneaking lot lotI I think I should do something desperate But Dut I do not see how th they take takeaway way away our supply said Mr II Coon I 1 them around here have c uever seen seen No Xo of course COUlse not not not- sal said Mr Fox Jut But dont don't you jou ou know that the whole Stoat tamil family has new white while coats and that It can get around In the snow wIthout i being seen much easier than I Ican cnn can or 01 either cither of you ou fellows That Stoat family said Mr Fox For when I was a youngster used to be called the weasel family an and when the they are aie not dressed dresse in those fine white coats oats of theirs thc they wear a very very homely homeI home- home I Jy ly brown biown one an and are a ver very common common- family so so they need not put on airs allS with me I thought of a 1 plan to drive away that Stoat family said sold Mr Fox but butI I must have some help an and there Is no chasing In Jt It so you ou two need not get uneasy I want you ou to to go with me up to Mr 1 Mans Man's barn bain There are plenty of lats rats in there and there Is also a big p pall pail of black paint and that Is where we put It over me Mr Stoat an and family Just what happened insl inside e the barn Mr Fox and his friends never knew GUI But ut when the Stoat family came out thc rhe they could be plainly seen against tha the white snow nw for every everyone one one of or that fam fam- fama a ily ly W ins S black the farmer tracked them by the paint or whether the they reit felt so di disgraced by having their fine tine white coat coal boiled Mr Fox an and his friends knew but they disappeared from Crom around llund those parts and anil the farmyard farmyard farm farm- yard was 15 not so carefully guarded after tha that hat Copyright |