"As sure as you're alive now, Ryder Rabbit, some day I will catch you," snarled Reddy Fox, as he poked his black nose in the hole between the roots of the Big Hickory-tree which grows close to the Smiling Pool. "It is lucky for you that you were not one jump farther away from this hole." Ryder, safe inside that hole, didn't have a word to say, or, if he did, he didn't have breath enough to say it.