Chapter XVI: Why Reddy Went Without a Chicken Dinner

CHAPTER XVI WHY REDDY WENT WITHOUT A CHICKEN DINNER A dinner is far better lost Than eaten at too great a cost. _Bowser the Hound._ Can you imagine Reddy Fox with a chicken dinner right before him and not touching it? Well, that is just what happened in Farmer Brown's henhouse. It wasn't because Reddy had no appetite. He was hungry, very hungry. He always is in winter. Then it doesn't often happen that he gets enough to eat at one meal to really fill his stomach. Yet here he was with a chicken dinner right before him, and he didn't touch