Good evening and welcome to Dreamtime Stories with Jackie.
I'm so glad you're here.
As we continue along on our story.
The Adventures of Old Granny Fox.
When last we left them.
Farmer Brown's boy was setting up a trap for them.
Because they had helped themselves to two plump pens from his pen house.
And they just can't have.
Boxes in the hen house.
No,
No,
No.
So snuggle down in your bed as we get ready.
For chapter 27.
Prickly Porky takes a sun bath.
Danger comes when least expected.
"'Tis often near when not expected,
O Granny Fox.
" The long hard winter had passed,
Finally,
And spring had come.
Prickly Porky the porcupine came down from a tall poplar tree.
And slowly stretched himself.
He was tired of eating.
He was tired of swinging in the treetop.
I believe I'll have a sunbath,
Said Prickly Porky.
And lazily walked toward the edge of the green forest in search of a place where the sun lay warm and bright.
Now Prickly Porky's stomach was very,
Very full.
He was plump and naturally lazy.
So when he came to the doorstep of an old house,
Just on the edge of the green forest,
He sat down to rest.
It was sunny and warm there,
And the longer he sat there,
The less like moving he felt.
He looked about him with his dull eyes.
And grunted to himself.
It's a deserted house.
Nobody lives here.
And I guess nobody will care if I take a nap right here on the doorstep.
Said prickly to himself.
And I don't care if they do.
He added,
For Prickly Porky,
The porcupine was afraid of nobody and nothing.
He made himself.
Comfortable.
He yawned once or twice.
He tried to wink up at jolly,
Round,
Red Mr.
Sun.
Who was winking and smiling down at him.
And then he fell fast asleep right on the doorstep of the old house.
Now the old house had been deserted.
No one had lived in it for a long,
Long time.
A very long time,
Indeed.
But it happened that the night before,
Old Granny Fox and Reddy had had to move out of their nice home on the edge of the green meadows.
Because Farmer Brown's boy had found them out.
Reddy was very stiff and sore,
For he had been shot by a hunter.
He was so sore he could hardly walk and he could not go very far.
So old Granny Fox had led him to this old deserted house and put him to bed in that.
No one will think of looking for us here,
For everyone knows that no one lives here.
Said old granny as she made ready,
As comfortable as possible.
As soon as it was daylight,
Granny Fox slipped out to watch for Farmer Brown's boy,
For she felt sure that he would come back to the old house they had just left.
Sure enough,
He did.
He brought a spade and dug the house open,
And all the time Granny Fox was watching him from behind a fence corner and laughing.
Laughing,
Laughing,
To think that she had been smart enough to move out in the middle of the night.
But Reddy Fox didn't know anything about this.
He was so tired that he slept and slept.
And slept.
It was the middle of the morning when finally he awoke.
He yawned and stretched And when he stretched,
Oh,
He groaned because he was so stiff and sore.
And then he hobbled up toward the doorway to see if old Granny Fox had left any breakfast outside for him.
It was dark,
Very dark.
Reddy was puzzled.
Could it be that he had gotten up before daylight?
That he hadn't slept as long as he thought.
Perhaps he had slept the whole day through and it was night again.
Oh my,
How hungry he was.
I hope Granny has caught a fine fat chicken for me,
Thought Reddy.
And his mouth watered at the thought of it.
Just then he ran.
Into something.
Screamed Ready Fox and he clapped both hands to his nose.
Something was sticking into it.
Oh,
It was one of the sharp little spears that Prickly Porky hides in his coat for protection.
Ready,
Fox knew then why the old house was so dark.
Prickly Porky was blocking up the doorway.
Oh my.
Oh my,
We'll have to come back to chapter 28 to see what happens with Prickly and old Granny Fox and Reddy Fox.
So,
You have a wonderful night's sleep.
And snuggle down in those blankets.
This is Jackie,
Sending you so many hugs.
Good night now.
