Doctor Rabbit and Brushtail the Fox

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Title: Doctor Rabbit and Brushtail the Fox
Author: Thomas Clark Hinkle
Illustrator: Milo Winter
Release Date: June 23, 2006 [EBook #18667]
Language: English
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THE GREENWOOD SERIES
DOCTOR RABBIT AND BRUSHTAIL THE FOX

By THOMAS CLARK HINKLE
Illustrations by MILO WINTER
RAND McNALLY & COMPANY CHICAGO--NEW YORK
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CONTENTS
BRUSHTAIL THE FOX COMES TO THE BIG GREEN WOODS 7
CHATTY RED SQUIRREL IS HEARD SCOLDING LOUDLY 12
BRUSHTAIL THE FOX PLAYS "POSSUM" 17 BRUSHTAIL GETS
A SCARE 22 DOCTOR RABBIT SEES SOMETHING
INTERESTING 27 TWO HUNTERS COME TO THE BIG GREEN
WOODS 33 DOCTOR RABBIT INFORMS HIS FRIENDS 37 WHAT
DOCTOR RABBIT SAW 41 MRS. BRUSHTAIL GETS A HEN 46
BRUSHTAIL THE FOX FINDS SOME PIECES OF CHEESE 51
THE GROWLERS COME OUT OF THE THICKET 57 JACK
RABBIT SPRAINS HIS FOOT 62 DOCTORING LITTLE THOMAS
WOODCHUCK 68 LISTENING TO THE BRUSHTAILS 74
DOCTOR RABBIT TELLS SOME GOOD NEWS 79 A FOOLISH
OLD HEN 82 DOCTOR RABBIT LAYS A TRAP 86 BRUSHTAIL
THE FOX IS ALMOST CAUGHT 92 AN EXCITING CHASE 100
THE BIG GRAY GOOSE GETS AWAY 105 BRUSHTAIL THE FOX
FINDS THE TRAPS 110 GETTING TOGETHER 114 BRUSHTAIL
THE FOX DISCOVERS THE COW'S HEAD 119 WHAT
HAPPENED TO BRUSHTAIL THE FOX 123
ILLUSTRATIONS
MY! HOW HE DID JUMP AND YELL! 24 BRUSHTAIL THE FOX
SEIZED HER BY THE NECK 80 IT WAS A QUEER PROCESSION!
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DOCTOR RABBIT AND BRUSHTAIL THE FOX
BRUSHTAIL THE FOX COMES TO THE BIG GREEN WOODS
Doctor Rabbit and Cheepy Chipmunk were sitting in Doctor Rabbit's
front yard talking. They laughed a good deal as they talked, for it was a
lovely morning in the beautiful Big Green Woods, and everyone felt
happy.
Finally jolly Doctor Rabbit said he believed he would run over to the
big sycamore tree to eat some more of the tender blue grass that grew
there. It seemed as if he could eat there all day and all night, he said,
because that grass was so good. Cheepy Chipmunk said he was getting
hungry again too, and he guessed he would be going home to eat the
fresh ear of corn he had found that morning.
Cheepy Chipmunk got up and was starting away, when Doctor Rabbit
seized him and said in a low, frightened whisper that scared Cheepy
half to death, "Come back and sit down and keep as still as anything.
Look out there, will you!"
Very badly startled, Cheepy Chipmunk came back and sat down, and
his eyes followed Doctor Rabbit's eyes. Cheepy saw an animal such as
he had never seen before. This animal looked somewhat like a dog, but
Cheepy knew right away he was no dog. He was not quite so large as
Ki-yi Coyote, and was of a reddish-brown color, with a large, bushy
tail. The animal was walking along under the trees not far away, and
did not even look in the direction of Doctor Rabbit and little Cheepy
Chipmunk.
But, although he could not tell why, Cheepy knew at once that that
reddish-brown animal walking along out there under the trees was very
dangerous to chipmunks and rabbits and any number of other little
animals. Yes, sir, Cheepy Chipmunk was dreadfully frightened at once,
for he was certain his life and the lives of Stubby Woodchuck, Chatty
Red Squirrel and all his other friends were in great danger. But he had
never seen such an animal before, so of course he did not know what it
was.

While Doctor Rabbit and Cheepy Chipmunk looked, the strange animal
walked along just as if he were not interested in anything. He did not
even look toward Doctor Rabbit and Cheepy Chipmunk. This fooled
innocent Cheepy, and he whispered to Doctor Rabbit, "He has not seen
us; let's slip into your house! I don't want him to catch sight of us."
"Keep right still!" Doctor Rabbit whispered in reply. "Just sit still. Yes,
he has seen us--don't you fool yourself about that. But he knows well
enough he can't catch us now. He's made up his mind he'll wait until he
gets a better chance. But we won't let him know we see him. We'll have
to try to deceive him at every turn. Yes, sir, Cheepy, we've got to watch
out every minute now; we certainly have. He's one