Chapter XVII: Farmer Brown's Boy Drops a Pan of Corn

CHAPTER XVII FARMER BROWN'S BOY DROPS A PAN OF CORN Who when surprised keeps calm and cool Is one most difficult to fool. _Bowser the Hound._ In his lifetime Reddy Fox has spent many anxious moments, but none more anxious than those in which he waited for Farmer Brown's boy to open the henhouse and feed the biddies on this particular morning. From the moment when the big rooster on the topmost perch stretched forth his neck, flapped his wings, and crowed as only he can crow, Reddy was on pins and needles, as the saying is. Hiding behind a box in