One morning Chatterer did not come out of his hollow stump as he usually did when his cage was placed on the shelf outside the farmhouse door.
Something very like tears filled his eyes, and he crept into his hollow stump where he couldn't see or be seen.
That very afternoon, while Chatterer was taking a nap in his bed in the hollow stump, something was slipped over his little round doorway, and Chatterer awoke in a terrible fright to find himself a prisoner inside his hollow stump.
At first, Chatterer would hide in his hollow stump as soon as he saw Farmer Brown's boy coming and wouldn't so much as peek out until he had gone away.
So when he found that there was no way to get out of his prison, he curled up in the little hollow stump in his prison, where no one could see him, and made up his mind that he would stay there until he died.
There were just two people to whom the disappearance of that fat hen Reddy Fox had hidden in the hollow stump was not a mystery.
The fat hen he had hidden in a hollow stump had disappeared without leaving trace.
Very pleasant were the thoughts of Reddy Fox as he trotted back to the swamp where was the hollow stump in which he had hidden the fat hen he had stolen.
That would mean giving up the fat hen which he had hidden in the hollow stump.
Presently he spied the hollow stump of a tree.
"Waiting for More Hares by the Stump" A farmer in the State of Song was working in his field when a hare dashed by, accidentally hit a tree stump, broke its neck, and died.
By and by something white moving about near an old stump caught[185] his attention.
He found a thoroughly rotted old stump and pulled it apart.
Perched on top of a tall stump just back of Boxer, it didn't take Hooty long to understand that this little Bear was lost.
Then one day as they were playing about near the Laughing Brook, while Mother Bear was busy a little way off tearing open an old stump after ants, Woof-Woof discovered a footprint.
There was the spot where the Indian pipes grew; the particular bit of marshy ground where the fringed gentians used to be largest and bluest; the rock maple where she found the oriole's nest; the hedge where the field mice lived; the moss-covered stump where the white toadstools were wont to spring up as if by magic; the hole at the root of the old pine where an ancient and honorable toad made his home; these were the landmarks of her childhood, and she looked at them as across an immeasurable d
He was beginning to get pretty tired by the time he reached the Green Forest and came in sight of the rotted old chestnut stump where he was to meet Buster Bear.
"Buster Bear has just sent word by me to ask if you will honor him by dining with him to-morrow at the rotted chestnut stump near the edge of the Green Forest," said Jimmy in his politest manner.
You see, I have always lived in a hole in the ground or a hollow stump, or a hole in a tree, and I have not yet become used to a home that moves about and rocks as this one does when the wind blows.
She merely poked her nose in at a splendid hole beneath the roots of an old stump.
