`` It just popped into my head that I had n't heard Bowser 's voice for two or three days . It set me to wondering if he is sick , or if anything has happened to him . '' That was enough to start Sammy Jay straight for Farmer Brown 's dooryard . Of course Bowser was n't to be seen . Sammy hung around and watched . Twice he saw Farmer Brown 's boy come to the door with a worried look on his face and heard him whistle and call for Bowser . Then there was n't the slightest doubt in Sammy 's mind that something had happened to Bowser . `` Old Man Coyote knows something about it , too , '' muttered Sammy , as he turned his head on one side and scratched his pointed cap thoughtfully . `` He ca n't fool me . That old rascal knows where Bowser is , or what has happened to him , and I would n't be a bit surprised if he had something to do with it . I almost know he did from the way he grinned . '' The day was not half over before all through the Green Forest and over the Green Meadows had spread the report that Bowser the Hound was no more . CHAPTER X HOW REDDY FOX INVESTIGATED In-vest-i-gate if you would know That something is or is n't so . Bowser the Hound . To in-vest-i-gate something means to try to find out about it . Reddy Fox had heard from so many different ones about the disappearance of Bowser that he finally made up his mind that he would in-vest-i-gate and find out for himself if it were true that Bowser was no longer at home in Farmer Brown 's dooryard . If it were true , -- well , Reddy had certain plans of his own in regard to Farmer Brown 's henhouse . Reddy had begun by doubting that story because it seemed to have come first from Old Man Coyote . Reddy would doubt anything with which Old Man Coyote was concerned . But Reddy had finally come to believe that something certainly had happened because half a dozen times during the day he had heard Farmer Brown 's boy whistle and whistle and call and call .
Just as soon as the Black Shadows came creeping out from the Purple Hills , XXXXX started up towards Farmer Brown 's .
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