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Title: What happened then stories
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Dyer, Ruth O Young, Florence Liley
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Publisher: Boston : Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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—down she fell,right at the foxs feet. The fox grabbed her and put her into alarge bag. When he had tied the bag se-curely he left the house and ran off as fast ashe could go towards his own home. I wonder where he is taking me, saidthe little red hen to herself. 139 THE LITTLE RED HEN The fox had not gone far before he felttired. Ill just stop and rest under thislarge tree, he said. And putting the bagdown on the ground, he stretched himselfout on the grass. It was not long before he was fast asleep.When the little red hen heard his deepbreathing, she took her scissors from herpocket and cut a hole in the bag. She creptout without making any noise. Then sheput a large stone in the bag and sewed upthe hole she had made. When she had donethis, she nodded her head to the sleeping foxand said, Good-bye, Mr. Fox, I am off formy home. By and by the fox woke up. Have Ibeen asleep? he asked himself. I musthurry or I shall be late to my dinner. So off he went faster than ever. The stone 140
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Good-bye, Mr. Fox.—Page 140. WHAT HAPPENED THEN hurt his back and he found it harder totravel than he had before. How heavy this little red hen is, thoughthe. She thinks she is clever but Ill showher. Ill show her. And he went on towards his home, fullydetermined to prove to the little red hen thathe was not only more clever than she, butalso more clever than any other animal. The Little Red HenWhat Happened Then I AM sure that the old fox never intended,for a minute, to boil the little red hen andhave her for supper. Even if he had in-tended such a thing, I do not think hismother would have allowed it. He did want 141 THE LITTLE RED HEN very much to catch her, for it worried himno little to have such a clever hen runningaround. You know all about how he crept up toher house and caught her when she fellto the floor. You know, too, how the littlered hen fooled him and got out of the bagand put a large stone in her place. My, my, how heavy this little red henis, said the old fox, as h

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