Green Grapes 61

‘Now the grapes flourished on the
sunny sides of the valleys, and on the other
sides (where the sun shone only when he
was high in the sky, and the hoarfrost did
not melt until afternoon in the winter days)
there liveda great number of foxes. They
loved the grapes exceedingly, and at night,
when the moon shone on the empty vine-
yards, they had the rarest times and did
much damage there. Nobody minded much,
however, for the land was very fertile, and
grapes so abundant that there were plenty
to spare, since even the foxes must live
somehow.

“Among the others there were many
little foxes... .”

‘I - know,” interjected Doris. ‘ They
preach sermons to children about them.”

“ Precisely,” said the Visitor. ‘“ Well,
the fox about which I want to tell you was
one of the little ones. It happened on a
day in spring that he was wandering alone
on the hillside, when he came suddenly
upon a very old fox, who was evidently