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 scurried into his hole. But after he had eluded the fox he would peep out of his hole, and then come out and watch the hunter from a distance just as though he taunted him. This the fox determined to remedy. No mere woodchuck was to make fun of him as a hunter. So one day he took Fluffy with him.

They made plenty of noise in approaching the favorite feeding ground of the old chuck, so just as Redcoat had supposed, he heard them and scurried for his hole.

Redcoat then posted himself behind a convenient stump close to the hole and intimated to Fluffy to go a short distance away and then to sit up in plain sight of the chuck's hole. This she did.

The woodchuck came to the mouth of his hole and saw the fox sitting upon her haunches some distance away, so he came out to taunt him.

He had his back to the stump where Redcoat was hiding, so did not see him when he rushed. The first thing Mr. Chuck knew he was seized in the strong jaws of the fox,