" With that, Bowser took one more sniff and then trotted off to try to find something more exciting.
" So they trotted to a point where they could see Farmer Brown's house, and there they sat down to watch.
All one night he followed them through the Green Forest and over the Green Meadows, and when at last he saw them go home, appearing not at all worried because they had caught nothing, he trotted off to his own home to do some more thinking.
It was just about Bowser's dinner-time when Granny and Reddy trotted across the snow-covered fields and crept behind the barn until they could peep around the corner.
The result was that he trotted right past Old Jed Thumper, the big gray Rabbit, who was sitting behind a little bush holding his breath.
This made it much easier, so he trotted along swiftly.
" With this he trotted off towards the Old Pasture and somehow he didn't mind the ache in his stomach as he had before.
While he had sniffed and snuffed and snuffed and sniffed with that wonderful nose of his, trying to find out where she had gone, Old Granny Fox had trotted straight to the sunny knoll and there curled up to rest.
"Granny certainly is growing foolish in her old age," thought Reddy, as he trotted along behind her.
"It isn't the least bit of use," he grumbled, as he trotted towards the Big River.
" He trotted out and began to run back and forth with his nose to the ground, hoping that his nose would tell him what his eyes couldn't.
"I feel it in my bones that this is going to be an exciting day," said Danny to himself as he trotted along.
While Peter slowly dragged his way along, Danny trotted behind to see that the wire did not catch on the bushes.
Sun was out of bed, old Granny Fox trotted down onto the meadows and straight over to where, down under the snow, lay the old fence post.
So Reddy trotted through the swamp till he came to the edge of it.
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.
He waited only long enough to make sure that Bowser would not come back; then he turned and trotted swiftly along his own back trail towards that hollow stump into which he had tossed that fat hen.
Making no sound, for Reddy can step very lightly when he chooses to, he trotted quickly through the little swamp until he drew near the other side.
Out of the bushes trotted Reddy.
" With this, Old Man Coyote once more grinned that wicked grin of his and trotted away towards the Green Forest.
