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 Bowser the Hound would have hard work to smell her on the stone wall . Way down at the end of the pasture an old apple tree stretched a long limb out towards the stone wall . When she got opposite to this she jumped onto this long limb and ran up into the tree . There in the crotch , close to the trunk , she sat and watched . Bowser the Hound , making a tremendous noise , followed her trail up to the stone wall . Then he was puzzled . He sniffed this way , and he sniffed that way , but he could not tell where Mother Fox had disappeared to . He looked up at old Mother Moon and bayed and bayed , but old Mother Moon did not help him a bit . Then he jumped over the stone wall and looked , and looked , and smelled , and smelled , but no track of Mother Fox could he find . Then he ran up along the stone wall a little way , and then down along the stone wall a little way , but still he could not find a track of Mother Fox . The longer he hunted , the angrier he grew . Old Mother Fox , sitting in the apple tree , watched him and laughed and laughed to herself . Then when she grew tired of watching him , she made a long jump out into the field and trotted off home to punish Reddy Fox for his disobedience . When she got there she found Reddy Fox very much ashamed , very tired and very sorrowful , and since that time Reddy Fox has never barked at the moon . V STRIPED CHIPMUNK 'S POCKETS It was one of Striped Chipmunk 's busy days . Every day is a busy day with Striped Chipmunk at this season of the year , for the sweet acorns are ripe and the hickory nuts rattle down whenever Old Mother West Wind shakes the trees , while every night Jack Frost opens chestnut burrs just to see the squirrels scamper for the plump brown nuts the next morning . So Striped Chipmunk was very busy , very busy indeed ! He whisked in and out of the old stone wall along one edge of the Green Meadows . Back and forth , back and forth , sometimes to the old hickory tree , sometimes to the hollow chestnut tree , sometimes to the great oak on the edge of the Green Forest Striped Chipmunk scampered .
Old XXXXX West Wind , coming down from the Purple Hills very early in the morning , had found Striped Chipmunk up before her and hard at work .
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