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Johnny Chuck, Danny Meadow Mouse and Whitefoot the Wood Mouse nodded as if they quite agreed. Then Peter continued, "Reddy lives chiefly by hunting, and in his turn he is hunted, so he needs to have sharp wits. When he isn't hunting me he is hunting Danny Meadow Mouse or Whitefoot or Striped Chipmunk or Mrs.
Bob White to sleep, for he was lonely no longer. One morning when Mr. Sun was very, very bright and it was very, very warm, down on the Green Meadows Reddy Fox came hopping and skipping down the Lone Little Path that leads to the Laughing Brook. Hoppity, skip, skippity hop! Reddy felt very much pleased with himself that sunny morning.
Then they were toted like meal-bags up the stairs of the chapel, and on up and up into the loft, and into the bell-tower. There they were laid out on the floor, and their angry eyes discovered that they were left to the tender mercies of Reddy and Heady. The ten other Lakerimmers hastened down to the ground floor again just in time to welcome the earliest of the Crows to arrive.
"We'll be in the front row to-morrow night," said Hippy, as the young folks trooped out to the car. "I have engaged a beautiful bunch of green onions from the truck florist, Reddy has put all his money into carrots of a nice lively color, the exact shade of his hair, while I have advised Davy here to invest in turnips.
"I am sure none of the team did, unless " Nora stopped short. She had been on the point of using Miriam's name, but remembered just in time that Miriam's brother was present. "If we knew the girl who did it, we'd certainly cut her acquaintance," said Reddy Brooks. "Never again should she bask in the light of our society," said Hippy dramatically.
When Peter Rabbit shouted this, Reddy looked back and showed all his teeth, but Peter only laughed, and Reddy trotted on. Peter watched him out of sight. "My! I wish I had such a handsome coat," he said, with a long sigh, for you know Peter's coat is very plain, very plain, indeed. "You wouldn't, if you had to wear it for the same reason that Reddy Fox has to wear his.
I am sorry to say that there is no kindness nor gentleness in him towards any save his own family. Outside of that he hasn't a friend in the world, not one." "Hasn't he any enemies?" asked Peter Rabbit. "Oh, yes," replied Old Mother Nature. "Reddy Fox, Old Man Coyote, Hooty the Owl and various members of the Hawk family have to be watched for by him. But they do not worry him much.
"Of course, he may have thought that if he could make Reddy run right slam bang against that barrel it would stop Reddy long enough to give him a chance to get away. That would have been pretty smart of Peter and quite like him. But somehow I have a feeling that he knew all the time that Jimmy Skunk was taking a nap inside and that something was bound to happen if he was disturbed.
That is why he is afraid of no one, and why every one respects Jimmy and his rights. He used it now, and he didn't waste any time about it. He threw some of that perfume right in the face of Reddy Fox before Reddy had a chance to turn or to say a word. "Take that!" snapped Jimmy Skunk. "Perhaps it will teach you not to play tricks on your honest neighbors!" Poor Reddy!
Thirkle stood a minute and scanned the channel, muttering to himself. "Looks all clear, sir," said Petrak. "All clear, Reddy. Push on, lad; the boats are right ahead." "Here we are, sir, all snug," called Petrak, and I saw the indistinct pile in the shadow of the brush which marked the cache of boats. "No matches, Reddy. Mind ye don't make a flash or we'll have some craft on the prowl along here.
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