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Show !Thornton-W Burgess 1JB- thing Reddy did was to find out just who the owner of that house was. He did it by peeking over the wall from some distance away, watching until he had a good look at Johnny. You can imagine how surprised he was. At first Reddy was disappointed. Johnny was no longer young and tender. Johnny was wise In the ways of Foxes. Reddy thought of how often he had tried to catch Johnny Chuck and failed. Then he thought of Polly Chuck and at once began to wonder if she was with Johnny. If she wasn't well, he might be able to catch both. It would be worth trying, anyway. So Reddy promptly stole down to a certain favorite hiding place .0 $DY FOX DOES SOME PLANNING 'f- IEIiE is anybody In the wide SaiJd who wants to know all that TSpi; Oh about him, it Is Reddy " Some folks like to find out ?";y can Just through Idle cu-f' cu-f' . One of the first things old r w Fox taught Reddy when he 1 ttle was that the more you j jthout the affairs of other peo-e peo-e greuter is the chance that ' 1 or later you will be able to , jy your knowledge. So Reddy jjever willingly or knowingly jmm to slip by a chance to learn """iDg of his neighbors and their r tr; j remember how Johnny Chuck ,j.,g flight himself very clever In I his new home In the corner ' old stone wall because It give him protection on both lie At lenst tlult ls tlie way lf i to him. And you remem-w!!!!fw remem-w!!!!fw Reddy Fox had discovered p ew house. And how he said couldn't suit him better pos-The pos-The reason It suited Reddy 1 that he saw at a glance that II; ill was too high for Johnny : over even when he sat up, and !;.: would be an easy matter to ip behind that wall and watch II ihance to surprise Johnny. II nurse, at first Roddy had not thai It was Johnny Chuck I id built that house. He had tlint It was a young, foolish finder Chuck. So the first greater delight in than in upsetting the plans of others. It didn't take Reddy long to learn that Johnny had to go some distance from his house to get his meals. He learned at just what hour Johnny breakfasted. He learned that whenever when-ever a wagon or an auto passed along the road Johnny ducked down out of sight, but didn't stay down long. In fact, he learned all about Johnny's ways, and then Reddy began be-gan to do some planning, and all this planning had to do with the catching catch-ing of Johnny Chuck. Reddy Indulged In-dulged In many sly grins as he planned. If Johnny could have known what was going on, he would have been nervous. He certainly would. . 1933. by T. W. Burgess. WNU Service. And There He Watched Until He Saw Polly Chuck Come Out. where he couid see the old apple tree by the far corner of the Old Orchard, Or-chard, and here he watched until he saw Polly Chuck come out to sit on her doorstep. Reddy grinned. "They've quarreled about something," some-thing," thought he. "That Is Just what they have done, and Johnny has gone to live by himself. What a silly fellow I What a silly fellow to give up such a splendid safe home as he had for such a place as he 1 now 1 Here I couldn't surprise him, but up there, well, we will see what we will see." So for several days Reddy Fox watched Johnny Chuck, usually very early In the morning. Always he took care that Sammy Jay shouldn't see him. The minute Sammy arrived ar-rived in that part of the Old Orchard Or-chard Reddy had business elsewhere. else-where. You see he knew that if Sammy once saw him watching he would nt once tell Johnny Chuck, and there is nothing Sammy takes |