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 either directly or indirectly teaches us all.

When Fluffy communicated the news of what had happened in the burrow to Redcoat he became very proud and redoubled his efforts at hunting. Then it was, seeing how the pups were pulling on Fluffy, that a daring enterprise came into the Red Hunter's mind. One that nearly proved fatal.

One evening just at dusk he started for the Holcome farm determined, if it were possible, to secure a fat hen for Fluffy. As he approached the barn he discovered that the men were busy about the buildings for a light was coming and going. The henhouse at the Holcome farm was attached to the barn, and the outside door, which the hens usually used, was often shut up for several days in the winter, while the hens came and went through the big barn door. As Redcoat watched from a distance he could see the hens scratching in the chaff on the barn floor. Finally one by one they passed through the small door into the hen-