Just as she expected, she saw
Farmer Brown's boy, and ahead of him, sniffing at every bush and
all along the Lone Little Path, was Bowser the Hound. Old Granny
Fox waited to see no more. She ran as fast as she could in a big
circle which brought her out on the Lone Little Path below Farmer
Brown's boy and Bowser the Hound, but where they couldn't see
her, because of a turn in the Lone Little Path. She trotted down
the Lone Little Path a very little way and then turned into the
woods and hurried back up the hill, where she sat down and
waited. In a few minutes she heard Bowser's great voice. He had
smelled her track in the Lone Little Path and was following it.
Old Granny Fox grinned. You see, she was planning to lead them
far, far away from the home where Reddy Fox was hiding, for it
would not do to have them find it.
And Farmer Brown's boy also grinned, as he heard the voice of
Bowser the Hound.
"I'll hunt that fox until I get him," he said. You see, he didn't
know anything about old Granny Fox; he thought Bowser was
following Reddy Fox.
XIX Unc' Billy Possum Gives Warning
"What's the matter with you, Unc' Billy? You look as if you had
lost your last friend." It was Jimmy Skunk who spoke.
Unc' Billy Possum stopped short. He had been hurrying so fast
that he hadn't seen Jimmy Skunk at all.
"Matter enuff, Suh! Matter enuff!" said Unc' Billy Possum,
when he could get his breath. "Do you hear that noise?"
"Sure, I hear that noise.
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