Miss Kitty Cat was suspicious. "If that's so, where are the pieces?"
"I ate them," the Muley Cow explained.
And everybody said she was very, very brave. And everybody shuddered at the Muley Cow's next remark. "The pieces tasted very good," she said. "It was as fine pumpkin as I ever ate."
XXII
TRYING TO BE FIERCE
The Muley Cow rather enjoyed the talk she caused because she had eaten Jack O'Lantern. And feeling that any one so brave ought not to appear too meek and mild, she sometimes tried to look as fierce as she could.
Somehow she could never manage a frown when old dog Spot was about. But if she came across Master Meadow Mouse all alone in the pasture she never failed to bellow at him and ask him in a gruff tone what he was doing there.
When she first spoke to him like that Master Meadow Mouse was startled.