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 Reddy felt when he peeped in that shed and saw those fine chickens just waiting for him . Two minutes later Reddy was racing back to the woods with one of them . This time there was no dog behind him . And in a little hollow Reddy ate the finest dinner he ever had had . You see there were no feathers to bother him on that chicken , for it had been picked .
When the last bit had disappeared , XXXXX once more started for home , and this time he was happy , for his stomach was full .
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