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    The Tale of Tommy Fox
    The Tale of Tommy Fox
    The Tale of Tommy Fox
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    The Tale of Tommy Fox

    By Arthur Scott Bailey

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    Release dateJun 1, 2004

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      The Tale of Tommy Fox - Arthur Scott Bailey

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Tale of Tommy Fox, by Arthur Scott Bailey

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org

      Title: The Tale of Tommy Fox

      Author: Arthur Scott Bailey

      Posting Date: January 26, 2013 [EBook #5955] Release Date: June, 2004 First Posted: September 29, 2002

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE TALE OF TOMMY FOX ***

      Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team.

      [Illustration: Run Along, Tommy Fox, the Squirrel Said]

      SLEEPY-TIME TALES

      THE TALE OF TOMMY FOX

      BY

      ARTHUR SCOTT BAILEY

      ILLUSTRATED BY

      HARRY L. SMITH

      Copyright, 1915, by

      A. S. BAILEY

      CONTENTS

      CHAPTER

      I TOMMY ENJOYS HIMSELF II JOHNNIE GREEN GOES HUNTING III TOMMY FOX LEARNS TO HUNT IV MOTHER GROUSE'S CHILDREN V TOMMY FOX IS HUNGRY VI MR. GRAY SQUIRREL'S MISTAKE VII TOMMY CHASES MR. WOODCHUCK VIII SOMETHING MAKES TOMMY VERY PROUD IX TOMMY FOX IN TROUBLE X MRS. FOX OUTWITS DOG SPOT XI TOMMY GROWS TOO CARELESS XII OLD MR. CROW IS PLEASED XIII JOHNNIE GREEN AND HIS NEW PET XIV TOMMY FOX MAKES A STRANGE FRIEND XV JOHNNIE GREEN FEELS SAD XVI TOMMY BECOMES BOASTFUL XVII PAYING A CALL ON A FRIEND XVIII THE WORLD TURNS WHITE XIX TOMMY FOX LEARNS A NEW TRICK XX THE DRUMMER OF THE WOODS XXI THE BIGGEST SURPRISE OF ALL

      ILLUSTRATIONS

      RUN ALONG, TOMMY FOX, THE SQUIRREL SAID…… Frontispiece

      A CLOUD OF FEATHERS FLOATED DOWN FROM THE LIMB

      MR. WOODCHUCK WHISKED DOWN OUT OF SIGHT

      TOMMY DASHED FOR THE LITTLE DOOR

      TOMMY THOUGHT IT WAS HIS MOTHER'S VOICE

      MRS. FOX AND TOMMY STARTED TO RUN

      I

      TOMMY ENJOYS HIMSELF

      Tommy Fox was having a delightful time. If you could have come upon him in the woods you would have been astonished at his antics. He leaped high off the ground, and struck out with his paws. He opened his mouth and thrust his nose out and then clapped his jaws shut again, with a snap. Tommy burrowed his sharp face into the dead leaves at his feet and tossed his head into the air. And then he jumped up and barked just like a puppy.

      If you could have hid behind a tree and watched Tommy Fox you would have said that he was playing with something. But you never could have told what it was, because you couldn't have seen it. And you may have three guesses now, before I tell you what it was that Tommy Fox was playing with. … It was a feather! Yes—Tommy had found a downy, brownish feather in the woods, which old Mother Grouse had dropped in one of her flights. And Tommy was having great sport with it, tossing it up in the air, and slapping and snapping at it, as it drifted slowly down to the ground again.

      He grew quite excited, did Tommy Fox. For he just couldn't help making believe that it was old Mother Grouse herself—and not merely one of her smallest feathers that he had found. And he leaped and bounded and jumped and tumbled about and made a great fuss over nothing but that little, soft, brownish feather.

      There was something about that feather that made Tommy's nose twitch and wrinkle and tremble. Tommy sniffed and sniffed at the bit of down, for he liked the smell of it. It made him feel very hungry. And at last he felt so hungry that he decided he would go home and see if his mother had brought him something to eat. So he started homewards.

      I must explain that Tommy lived with his mother and that their house was right in the middle of one of Farmer Green's fields, not far from the foot of Blue Mountain. When Tommy was quite small his mother had chosen that place for her house, which was really a den that she had dug in the ground. By having her house in the center of the field she knew that no one could creep up and catch Tommy when he was playing outside in the sunshine. Now Tommy was older, and had begun to roam about in the woods and meadows alone. But Mrs. Fox liked her home in the field, and so she continued to live there.

      Tommy was so hungry, now, and in such a hurry to reach home, that you might think that he would have gone straight toward his mother's house. But he didn't. He trotted along a little way, and suddenly gave a sidewise leap which carried him several feet away from the straight path he had been following. Again he trotted ahead for a short distance. And then he wheeled around and ran in a circle. And after he had made the circle he jumped to one side once more, and ran along on an old tree which had fallen upon the ground. He was not playing. No!—Tommy Fox was just trying to obey his mother. Ever since he had been big enough to wander off by himself she had told him that he must never go anywhere without making jumps and circles. It takes longer, she said; "but it is better to do that way, because it makes it hard for a dog to follow you. If you ran straight ahead, Farmer Green's dog could go smelling along in your footsteps, and if he didn't actually catch

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