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 me! Please open the door! This time I promise you I’ll give you a ride on my tail! Truly I will!”

She just begged and begged until at last BudlinekBudulinek [sic] opened the door. Then Lishka jumped into the room and do you know what she did? She put her nose right into the bowl of peas and gobbled them all up!

Then she said to Budulinek:

“Now get on my tail and I’ll give you a ride!”

So Budulinek climbed on Lishka’s tail and Lishka went running around the room faster and faster until Budulinek was dizzy and just had to hold on with all his might.

Then, before Budulinek knew what was happening, Lishka slipped out of the house and ran swiftly off into the forest, home to her hole, with Budulinek still on her tail! She hid Budulinek down in her hole with her own three children and she wouldn’t let him out. He had to stay there with the three little foxes and they all teased him and bit him. And then wasn’t he sorry he had disobeyed his Granny! And, oh, how he cried!

When Granny came home she found the door open and no little Budulinek anywhere. She looked high and low, but no, there was no little Budulinek. She asked every one she met had they seen her little Budu-