Show I 1 burgess Burc fess OLD GRANNY FOX LOSES nur HER DIGNITY U T NC BILLY POSSUM had passed the word along to jimmy skunk peter rabbit and prickly pork porky that old granny fox would be on hand at sunup sun up to see for herself the strange creature which had frightened reddy fox at the foot of the hill where prickly porky lives how did unc billy know well he just guessed he is quite as shrewd and clever as granny fox herself and when he told her that the only time the strange creature everybody was talking about was seen was at sunup sun up he guessed by the very way she sniffed and pretended not to believe it at all that she would visit prickly hill the ol 01 lady suspects that there is some trick and geuns has got to be very careful warned une unc billy as he and his three friends N 11 Z F 0 log then he climbed down from the tree he had bad been sitting in and began to poke around in the dead leaves put their heads together in the early evening she is done bound to come snooping around before sunup he continued and geuns must be out of sight all excepting brer porky unc billy was quite right old granny fox felt sure that some one was playing tricks so she wait until jolly round red mr sun was out of bed she was at the top of the hill where prickly porky lives a full hour before sunup sun up and there she sat down to wait she see or hear anything in the least suspicious pi cious clous you see unc billy possum was quite out of sight as he sat in the thickest part of a hemlock tree and peter rabbit was sitting perfectly still in a hollow log and jimmy skunk showing so much as the tip of his nose as he lay just inside the doorway of an old hou house se under the roots of a big stump only prickly porky was to be seen and he seemed to be asleep in his bis favorite tr tree e e at last the cheerful little sunbeams began to dance through the green forest chasing out the black sh shadows adois redeye the vireo awoke and at once began to sing as is his way not even waiting to get a mouthful of breakfast prickly pric kly porky yawned dawned and grunted then he climbed down from the tree he had been sitting in walked slowly over to td another started to climb it changed his mind and began to poke around in the dead leaves old granny fox arose and slowly wl stretched she glanced at prickly porky contemptuously she had seen him act in this stupid way dozens of times before then slowly watching out sharply on both sides of her without appearing to do so she walked down the hill now old granny fox can be very dignified when she wants to be and she was now she hurry the least little bit she carried her big plumey tail just so and she once look behind her for she fe felt it sure that there was nothing out of the way there and to have done so would have been quite undignified she had reached the bottom of the hill and was walking along the hollow smiling to herself to think how easily some people are re frightened when her sharp ears caught a sound on the hill behind her she tur turned ed like a flash and then well for or a minute old granny fox was too surprised to do a anything but stare there rolling down the hill straight toward her was the very thing reddy y had told her about at first granny decided to stay right where she was and find out what this thing was but the nearer it got the stranger and more terrible it seemed it was just a great ball all covered with dried leaves and yet somehow granny felt sure that it was alive although she could see no head or tall tail or legs then granny forgot her dignity yes sir she quite lost it altogether her big plumey tail which she carried so proudly dropped and old granny fox ran just as reddy had run 0 T W burgess service |