So for a few minutes he ran faster than ever and he gained a long way on Bowser the Hound . As he passed a shock of corn that had been left standing on the White Meadows , Mother Fox stepped out from behind it . `` Go home , Reddy Fox , '' said she , sharply , `` go home and stay there until I come . '' Then she deliberately sat down in front of the shock of corn to wait until Bowser the Hound should come in sight . Now Bowser the Hound kept his eyes and nose on the track of Reddy Fox , looking up only once in a while to see where he was going , so he did not see Reddy Fox slip behind the corn shock , and when he did look up , he saw only Mother Fox sitting there waiting for him . Now Bowser the Hound thinks slowly . When he saw old Mother Fox sitting there , he did not stop to think that it was not Reddy Fox whom he had been following , or he would have known better than to waste his time following old Mother Fox . He would have just hunted around until he had found where Reddy had gone to . But Bowser the Hound thinks slowly . When he saw old Mother Fox sitting there , he thought it was Reddy Fox and that now he had him . With a great roar of his big voice , he sprang forward . Mother Fox waited until he was almost upon her , then springing to one side , she trotted off a little way . At once Bowser the Hound started after her . She pretended to be very tired . Every time he rushed forward she managed to just slip out of his grasp . Little by little she led him across the White Meadows back towards Farmer Brown 's barnyard . Pretty soon old Mother Fox began to run as fast as she could , and that is very fast indeed . She left Bowser the Hound a long , long way behind . When she came to a stone wall she jumped up on the stone wall and ran along it , just like a squirrel . Every once in a while she would make a long jump and then trot along a little way again .
She knew that stones do not carry the scent well , and that XXXXX the Hound would have hard work to smell her on the stone wall .
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