Rag-gylug 



these fields were those of a thoroughly bad and 

 unscrupulous fox that lived only too near. 



The chief indwellers of the swamp were 

 Molly and Rag. Their nearest neighbors were 

 far away, and their nearest kin were dead. 

 This was their home, and here they lived to- 

 gether, and here Rag received the training that 

 made his success in life. 



Molly was a good little mother and gave him 

 a careful bringing up. The first thing he 

 learned was ' to lay low and say nothing.' His 

 adventure with the snake taught him the wis- 

 dom of this. Rag never forgot that lesson ; af- 

 terward he did as he was told, and it made the 

 other things come more easily. 



The second lesson he learned was 'freeze.' 

 It grows out of the first, and Rag was taught it 

 as soon as he could run. 



' Freezing ' is simply doing nothing, turning 

 into a statue. As soon as he finds a foe near, 

 no matter what he is doing, a well-trained Cot- 

 tontail keeps just as he is and stops all move- 

 ment, for the creatures of the woods are of the 

 same color as the things in the woods and 

 catch the eye only while moving. So when 



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