The Case of the Fiddle-Playing Fox by John R. Erickson

Author:John R. Erickson
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Hank the Cowdog
ISBN: 9781591881124
Publisher: Maverick Books
Published: 2011-10-15T05:00:00+00:00

Yes indeed, the wheels were turning now. I had pretty muchly firmed up my case and now the time had come for me to bust in there and . . .

Sure was pretty music, the sweetest fiddle you ever heard. If there’s one thing this old world’s short on, it’s sweet fiddle music. I couldn’t remember when I’d . . .

I could almost understand how a bunch of chickens might invite this guy into their house and . . . what else did a chicken have to do with its time? And it seemed fairly reasonable that they might pay him off in eggs, didn’t it? What else could . . .

You know, there’s something almost hypnotic about a fid . . . flowers and pretty girls and young love, and me and Beulah . . . one-two-three-four, one-two-three-four . . . dancing around the room, her big collie eyes . . . something almost hypnotic about fiddle music.

I mean, a guy has to concentrate real hard on his . . . one-two-three-four, a one-two-three-four . . . sweetest fiddle . . . on his business or he could very easily get . . . “Oh Hank, you’re a wonderful dancer!” . . . one-two-three-four, one-two-three-four . . . “Beulah, you’ve never been more beautiful than you are tonight” “. . . Hank, how did you know that I love fiddle music?”

Anyway, the point is that if a guy didn’t concentrate pretty hard on his fiddle, he could sure get caught up in that sweet business music, because there’s something hypnotic . . .

Pink streaks of dawn on the eastern horizon? That was odd. I must have dozed . . . I sat up and blinked my eyes. The music had stopped and the chicken house was dark and quiet. Somehow the night had slipped away from me, and perhaps that sneaking, egg-stealing fox had slipped away with it, which kind of annoyed me, don’t you know, seeing as how I’d intended to . . .

Ah ha and oh ho! He hadn’t slipped away from me, because at that very moment I saw his bushy tail appear at the door, as he came backing out.

I leaped to my feet and puffed myself up to my full height and massiveness, and announced to one startled fox, “Freeze, turkey! You’re under arrest!”

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