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Then Doctor Rabbit crept to the center of the briar patch and sat down. He decided that if necessary he would stay in the briar patch all day and watch. He knew Brushtail the Fox had some kind of a secret in that thicket a den or something else he never would have been so careful about getting into it.
He thought he would presently see a sharp nose or a bushy tail, but he did not. Brushtail was hiding somewhere in that thicket. "Well! well! well!" Doctor Rabbit exclaimed. "I certainly should like to know what old Brushtail is doing in there. I am positive he is in that thicket. He never could have slipped out without my seeing him. Yes, sir, he's in there.
As Doctor Rabbit started hopping along through the woods he said quietly to himself, "Of course this scheme I have in mind may not work. But it is worth trying anyway. I won't tell any of my friends about it, and then if I don't catch Brushtail they won't be disappointed. But if I do catch him!" Right here Doctor Rabbit stopped and laughed and laughed.
Then, as the form came nearer, Doctor Rabbit saw Brushtail the Fox trotting along with his sharp nose to the ground, smelling the trail where that cow's head had been dragged. Well, sir, Brushtail went right up to the thicket where the noose was. Then he laughed and laughed and laughed. "Well, well, well!" said Brushtail. "I guess I'm just a little too smart for anybody around these woods.
The fish jumped and squirmed just enough to make Brushtail want it very badly. He was so delighted that he stood up on his hind legs and danced toward the fish. "Ha! ha!" he laughed. "It was probably old Bald Eagle who flew over the woods and dropped his fish! Ha! ha! ha! That's luck for me a fine fish for breakfast. And I did not have to get my feet wet to catch it."
He stopped and looked at Doctor Rabbit and asked, "Are you waiting for some one?" "Yes," Doctor Rabbit replied, "I'm waiting for Brushtail the Fox; I'm expecting him any time." "Brushtail the Fox!" exclaimed the Woodrat. "Well, I'm not going to wait for him!" And he hurried away as fast as he could. Then Doctor Rabbit heard another noise. Some creature was creeping through the bushes not far off.
As they went past him this last time Doctor Rabbit heard Brushtail say to Mrs. Brushtail, "You can just wait with them in the thicket on the other side of Murmuring Brook until I carry two of them up the river to the new den. When I come back we can carry the other two." You see, foxes can carry their baby Foxes by the back of the neck and not hurt them at all.
And sure enough, in a few minutes Chatty Squirrel saw Brushtail lying low in the bushes, and then how he did scold! "Aha, old Brushtail, I see you hiding in the bushes. Thought I wouldn't see you, didn't you? Thought I wouldn't see you! But I see you, all right. You can't fool Chatty, no siree.
And Farmer Roe walked back through the woods toward his house. After a while the sound of his heavy footsteps died away. Everything in the thicket was perfectly still. There was not a sound. Doctor Rabbit waited and listened. Then he heard a movement inside the thicket. Presently Mrs. Brushtail came out, sat down, and looked in the direction Farmer Roe had taken. While she sat there Mr.
But even if he was angry, Brushtail knew, of course, that he could not climb that tree after Chatty Squirrel, so he just ground his teeth and walked on. He decided that he would make Chatty pay for this, indeed he would. He would catch him the very first of all.
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