-LSB- Illustration : ON BROAD WINGS IT SAILED OVER TO THAT HOLLOW STUMP . Page 199 . -RSB- `` It 's a lucky thing for me that robber , Mr. Goshawk , saw Reddy hide that fat hen , '' muttered Blacky . `` If he had n't , he might have caught me , for I did n't see him at all . '' CHAPTER XLII ALL IS WELL THAT ENDS WELL When things go wrong , just patient be Until the end you plainly see . For often things that seem all bad Will end by making all hands glad . Bowser the Hound . Reddy Fox , trotting homeward , had nothing but bitterness in his heart , and nothing at all in his stomach . He was tired and hungry and bitterly disappointed . He was in a country with which he was not familiar , and so he did not know where to hunt , and he felt that he just must get something to eat . Do what he would , he could n't help thinking about that fat hen he had hidden and which had so mysteriously disappeared . The more he thought of it , the worse he felt . It was bad enough to be hungry and have no idea where the next meal was coming from , but it was many times worse to have had that meal and then lose it . To Reddy , everything was all wrong . Now on his way home Ready had to pass several farms . Hunger made him bold , and at each farm he stole softly as near as possible to the farmyard , hoping that he might find more fat hens unguarded . Now it happened that that afternoon a farmer at one of these farms was preparing some chickens to be taken to market early the next morning . He was picking these chickens in a shed attached to the barn . He had several all picked when he was called to the house on an errand . It happened that just after he had disappeared Reddy Fox came stealing around from behind the barn , and at once he smelled those chickens .
Just imagine how XXXXX felt when he peeped in that shed and saw those fine chickens just waiting for him .
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