He was mightily pleased with himself , was Blacky . In the first place his plan was working beautifully . You know what he was after was to get Reddy Fox over to that farm where Bowser was . He hoped that if Reddy should catch one of those fat hens , the farmer would put Bowser on Reddy 's trail . He knew that Reddy would probably return straight home , and Bowser , following Reddy 's trail , would thus find his way back home to Farmer Brown 's . Of course , it all depended on whether Reddy would catch one of those fat hens and whether Bowser would be allowed to hunt him . Blacky had a plan for making sure that if Reddy did get one of those hens the folks in the farmhouse would know it . But what tickled Blacky most the knowledge that Reddy Fox thought he was fooling Blacky . You remember that Reddy had pretended to be very weak . Blacky knew that Reddy was nothing of the kind . At the very first opportunity Blacky stopped in the top of a tall tree as if to rest . His real reason for stopping was to have a chance to look back . You see , while he was flying he could n't look behind him . Presently , just as he expected , he saw in the distance a little red speck , and that little red speck was moving very fast indeed . There was nothing weak or feeble in the way that red speck was coming across the snow-covered fields . Blacky chuckled hoarsely . Nearer and nearer came the red speck , and of course the nearer it came the larger it grew . Presently it stopped moving fast . It began to move slowly and stop every once in a while , as if to rest . Blacky laughed right out .
He knew then that Reddy XXXXX had discovered him sitting in the top of that tall tree and was once more pretending .
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