Do you wonder that Reddy was dismayed ? CHAPTER XXXVI REDDY HIDES THE FAT HEN Dishonesty will run away Where Honesty will boldly stay . Bowser the Hound . Reddy Fox was in a fix ! He certainly was in a fix ! Here he was with the fat hen which he had come such a long , long way to get , and no chance to eat it , for Bowser the Hound was on his trail . Ordinarily Reddy Fox can run faster than can Bowser , but it is one thing to run with nothing to carry , and another thing altogether to with a burden as heavy as a fat hen . Reddy 's wits were working quite as fast as his legs . `` I ca n't carry this fat hen far , '' thought Reddy , `` for Bowser will surely catch me . I do n't want to drop it , because I have come such a long way to get it , and goodness knows when I will be able to catch another . The thing for me to do is to hide it where I can come back and get it after I get rid of that pesky dog . Goodness , what a noise he makes ! '' As he ran , Reddy watched sharply this way and that way for a place to hide the fat hen . He knew he must find a place soon , because already that fat hen was growing very heavy . Presently he spied the hollow stump of a tree . He did n't know it was hollow when he first saw it , but from its looks he thought it might be . The top of it was only about two feet above the ground . Reddy stopped and stood up on his hind legs so as to see if the top of that stump was hollow . It was . With a quick look this way and that way to make sure he was n't seen , he tossed the fat hen over into the hollow and then , with a sigh of relief , darted away .
With the weight of that fat hen off his shoulders , and the worry about it off his mind , Reddy could give all his attention to getting rid of XXXXX the Hound .
Bowser Fox REDDY feet first fix ground pesky stump way