Show I b O o o KW ii by Thornton W. W W Burgess I REDDY FOX IS LAUGHED AT R p EDDY FOX was miserable Yes A sir sir Reddy Fox was miserable To be continually laughed at al is enough to make any one ne miserable No one ever likes to be laughed at unless they are trying to make peo peo- people people pIe laugh at them Reddy Fox wasn't doing anything of that kind Oh my no No indeed I Reddy considers himself a very fine gen gen- gentleman gentleman gentleman and so of course he wouldn't think of doing anything to tomake tomake make people laugh at him But they I did laugh at him just the same rh- rh f fJ J r r tt If r. r Reddy Fox Was Miserable to Miserable to Be Continually Laughed at Is Enough to Make Any One Miserable even the very smallest and it was all because of the way he ran from Buster Bear with Jumper the Hare right at his heels You see everybody pretended to believe that it was from Jumper that he was running away So Reddy was very miserable If he went down on the Green Mead Mead- Meadows Meadows Danny Meadow Mouse would be sure to call out Mr Reddy has a scare At the shadow of a hare Then Danny would laugh in the most provoking manner and hide where Reddy could not get at him If he went down to the Smiling Pool he would no sooner come in sight of ot Jerry Muskrat than Jerry would shout Reddy Reddy you watch out Jumpers Jumper's somewhere hereabout Then Jerry would laugh in the most provoking way and Reddy couldn't do a thing because Jerry would be swimming with only his head out of water If I he went to the Green Forest he would be sure to hear Unc Billy Possums Possum's funny chuckle from some tree overhead and then Unc Billy would say Ah done hear henr say it fo a fac Who runs away will sho come back Then all Reddy could do would be beto beto beto to grind his teeth and tell Unc Billy what dreadful things he would do doto doto doto to him if he ever caught him Now of course all that the little people of the Green Forest and the Green Meadows did these things for was to tease Reddy Fox When he grew angry they laughed and the angrier he grew the harder they laughed Of Ot course that wasn't at atall atall atall all nice of ot them But they didn't stop to think of that Not one of them loves Reddy Fox and now that they had a chance to get even with him for all aU the frights he had given them and for all aU the mean things he had done to them they were just bound to make the most of it You see it didn't enter their heads that they might be making malting trouble for some one else All AU they thought of was making Reddy Fox I feel miserable But it is not very often that you or I or anybody else can make trouble for just one person Did you ever think of that Its It's so You go ask Jumper the Hare All AU Jumpers Jumper's friends were laughing at Reddy Fox and shouting mean things at him and calling ng him a coward because they knew it made Reddy feel uncomfortable and mis mise erable crable It didn't once enter their heads that they were making trouble for any anyone one else Yet they were They were making a lot of ot trouble for some one else and that some one was Jumper the Hare m T. T T W. W Burgess Service |