Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 272
forethey are hatched. Quite right, said the Fox, neither do I; and, as a hen in the present is worth ten chickens in thefuture, I will eat you now. So saying, he carried her off. The next morning the farmer, seeing the tracks of the fox in the snow, took his gun and went out andshot him. Alas !… … Well! said January, walking in one bright winter morning, with the snow clinging to his hair andbeard, here I am once more, Mother; how have you got along without me all these eleven months ? Oh, very well, indeed, said sweet Mother Nature, cheerily. I ve had plenty of your brothers andsisters ;…
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