Reddy Fox looked up at Sammy Jay and snarled angrily . Then , knowing it was useless to hide longer , he bounded away through the Green Forest to hunt elsewhere . CHAPTER XVIII : The Hunter Loses His Temper The hunter , hidden near the pond of Paddy the Beaver , chuckled silently . That is to say , he laughed without making any sound . The hunter thought the warning of Mr. and Mrs. Quack by Sammy Jay was a great joke on Reddy . To tell the truth , he was very much pleased . As you know , he wanted those Ducks himself . He suspected that they would stay in that little pond for some days , and he planned to return there and shoot them after he had got Lightfoot the Deer . He wanted to get Lightfoot first , and he knew that to shoot at anything else might spoil his chance of getting a shot at Lightfoot . `` Sammy Jay did me a good turn , '' thought the hunter , `` although he does n't know it . Reddy Fox certainly would have caught one of those Ducks had Sammy not come along just when he did . It would have been a shame to have had one of them caught by that Fox . I mean to get one , and I hope both of them , myself . '' Now when you come to think of it , it would have been a far greater shame for the hunter to have killed Mr. and Mrs. Quack than for Reddy Fox to have done so . Reddy was hunting them because he was hungry . The hunter would have shot them for sport . He did n't need them . He had plenty of other food . Reddy Fox does n't kill just for the pleasure of killing . So the hunter continued to sit in his hiding-place with very friendly feelings for Sammy Jay .
Sammy watched Reddy XXXXX disappear and then flew over to that side of the pond where the hunter was .
Fox Hunter Jay Paddy Reddy Sammy XVIII days first hiding-place