He forgot all about how mean Reddy had been.
"Poor Reddy Fox," said Peter Rabbit. "Poor Reddy Fox."
XI. Granny Fox Returns
Up over the hill trotted old Granny Fox. She was on her way home
with a tender young chicken for Reddy Fox. Poor Reddy! Of course,
it was his own fault, for he had been showing off and he had been
careless or he never would have gone so near to the old tree
trunk behind which Farmer Brown's boy was hiding.
But old Granny Fox didn't know this. She never makes such
mistakes herself. Oh, my, no! So now, as she came up over the
hill to a place where she could see her home, she laid the
chicken down and then she crept behind a little bush and looked
all over the Green Meadows to see if the way was clear. She knew
that Bowser the Hound was chained up. She had seen Farmer Brown
and Farmer Brown's boy hoeing in the cornfield, so she had
nothing to fear from them.
Looking over to her doorstep, she saw Reddy Fox lying in the sun,
and then she saw something else, something that made her eyes
flash and her teeth come together with a snap. It was Peter
Rabbit sitting up very straight, not ten feet from Reddy Fox.
"So that's that young scamp of a Peter Rabbit whom Reddy was
going to catch for me when I was sick and couldn't! I'll just
show Reddy Fox how easily it can be done, and he shall have
tender young rabbit with his chicken!" said Granny Fox to
herself.
So first she studied and studied every clump of grass and every
bush behind which she could creep.
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