"What do you mean?" Mr. Fox asked him.
"Have you found any eggs?" Benny questioned.
Mr. Fox said something that might have been either "Yes" or "No." Benny was not quite sure which it was. But since Mr. Fox shook his head, he decided that it must be "No."
"I think we're too late," Mr. Fox remarked. "The eggs must have all hatched by this time."
Benny Badger hastened to set Mr. Fox right.
"That can't be possible," he replied. "I met Mrs. Prairie Chicken this morning and she told me she had a baker's dozen of eggs in her nest."
"You must be mistaken about that," Mr. Fox assured him. "Where did you say her nest is?"
"I didn't say," Benny answered.
"No, of course not!" Mr. Fox corrected himself. "What I meant was, where did Mrs. Prairie Chicken say it is?"
"She didn't say," replied Benny Badger.