Fox Reddy lives with her grandma. A few days ago, he stole the pet chicken of farmer Brown's son, but was shot in the thigh and is now recovering from injuries at home.
Grandma Fox felt that trouble was coming, and walked around restlessly, her nose sniffing into the air.
"I didn't see any trouble, and I didn't smell anything wrong from the air. I just felt the wound hurting a wave of pain." Fox Reddy said. He stretched out and lay on the steps at the door.
"That's because you are not attentive. Go to the house and stay there honestly!" After saying that, Grandma Fox smelled the smell in the air again like she did more than ten minutes ago.
"I don't want to go in," Fox Reddy complained, "The air outside is nice and warm, and it's much better to stay here than to stay in a dark room."
Fox Grandma turned around and stared at Fox Reddy with her eyes.
Although the fox Reddy was still muttering, he still obediently got into the hole.
Grandma fox put her head into the hole.
"You are not allowed to come out until I come back." She ordered. Then he added: "Farmer Brown's son is coming to this side with a gun." After saying that, she ran away like a red lightning bolt.
"I can't let them discover our home." Grandma Fox said to herself while disappearing into the green forest.
First, she ran to the hill to find a high place, and standing there, she saw the son of farmer Brown, in front of him, the hound Bowser sniffed on every bush.
Grandma Fox didn't look much and took action immediately. She ran quickly in a big circle, then turned around and crawled into the woods, then ran up the mountain, and when she got on the mountain, she sat down and waited. After a while, she heard the loud scream of the hunting dog Bowser. He smelled the smell of grandma fox and followed along.
Grandma fox smiled. Look, she was planning to lead them far away so that they could be far away from where Reddy was hiding, which was her and Reddy's nest, and she would never let them find him.
As soon as he heard the cry of the hound Bowser, farmer Brown's son smiled.
"I have to catch that fox!"
fox grandma is very clever and very smart. She knew all the tricks of those foxes playing with the tracker. She naturally knew how to trick the hunting dog Bowser, making him dizzy and unable to find her own trace. But she doesn't plan to do that yet! Grandma Fox deliberately made her trace more obvious, and deliberately made the hunting dog Bowser discover and follow. She wanted to bring both farmer Brown’s son and hunting dog Bowser to stay away from where Reddy was recovering.
"Woom!" The hunting dog Bowser roared while tracking the winding footprints left by the fox grandma. This is what Grandma Fox hopes to see.
Grandma fox led the hunting dog Bowser back and forth to shuttle through the old pasture, and ran along the pile of rocks at the foot of the mountain for a while.
Here is already far from the green grassland and the green forest, and the fox grandma deliberately led him to run so far.
After a while, the fox grandma came to a hole. There was once her grandfather's old house, which had a back door next to the empty tree trunk. So, Grandma Fox got into the old house, ran out of the back door, passed through the empty tree trunk, and finally jumped into a stream. The stream was very low, almost not even her heels. She walked in the water without leaving any trace.
Hound Bowser roared at the hole of the old house. Because the fox grandmother's footprints reached this place, Bowser was so excited that he barked wildly. He finally found Grandma Fox's nest, at least that's what he thought. He was very sure that Grandma Fox was there because she left clear footprints here, and there were only footprints that went in, no footprints that came out.
Hound Bowser never thought there would be a back door there.But then again, even if he knew there was a back door there, it would be useless, because we all know that Grandma Fox had already slipped through the empty trunk.
■ Text/Excerpted from "The Adventures of Reddy of the Fox" (by Burgess, [US], published by Huashan Literature and Art Publishing House)
■The pictures are all pictures except the cover of the book
■Editor/Jia Lifang
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