Chapter XXVI: Red Wits and Black Wits

CHAPTER XXVI RED WITS AND BLACK WITS This fact you'll find is always so: He's quick of wit who fools a Crow. _Bowser the Hound._ There is no greater flatterer in the Green Forest or on the Green Meadows than Blacky the Crow when he hopes to gain something thereby. His tongue is so smooth that it is a wonder it does not drip oil. He is crafty, is Blacky. But these same things are true of Reddy Fox. No one ever yet had a chance to accuse Reddy Fox of lacking in sharp wits. Mistakes he makes, as everybody does, but