XXXVI REDDY HIDES THE FAT HEN 171 XXXVII FARMER BROWN'S BOY HAS A GLAD SURPRISE 176 XXXVIII REDDY GOES BACK FOR HIS FAT HEN 181 XXXIX A VANISHED DINNER 186 XL WHERE WAS REDDY'S DINNER? 191 XLI WHAT BLACKY THE CROW SAW 196 XLII ALL IS WELL THAT ENDS WELL 201 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS "As I live," he muttered, "that is Bowser the Hound!" _Frontispiece_ Over at the gate of Farmer Brown's henyard he could see a dark form 53 Somewhere not very far ahead of him was a house 96 On broad wings it sailed over to that hollow stump 199 CHAPTER I OLD MAN COYOTE LEADS BOWSER AWAY Though great or small the matter prove Be faithful in whate'er you do. 'Tis thus and only thus you may To others and yourself be true. _Bowser the Hound._ Old Man Coyote is full of tricks. People with such clever wits as his usually are full of tricks. On the other hand Bowser the Hound isn't tricky at all. He just goes straight ahead with the thing he has to do and does it in the most earnest way. Not being tricky himself, he sometimes forgets to watch out for tricks in others. One day he found the fresh trail of Old Man Coyote and made up his mind that he would run down Old Man Coyote if he had to run his legs off to do it. He always makes up his mind like that whenever he starts out to hunt. You know there is nothing in the world Bowser enjoys quite so much as to hunt some one who will give him a long, hard run. Any time he will go without eating for the pleasure of chasing Reddy or Granny Fox, or Old Man Coyote. Now Old Man Coyote was annoyed. He was and he wasn't afraid of Bowser the Hound. That is to say he was afraid to fight Bowser, but he wasn't afraid to be hunted by Bowser, because he was so sure that he was smart enough to get away from Bowser. If Bowser had appeared at almost any other time Old Man Coyote wouldn't have been so annoyed. But to have Bowser appear just then made him angry clear through. You see he had just started out to get his dinner. "What business has that good-for-nothing dog over here anyway, I'd like to know," he muttered, as he ran swiftly through the Green Forest. "What right has he to meddle in other folks' business? I'll just teach that fellow a lesson; that's what I'll do! I'll teach him that he can't interfere with me not be sorry for it."