“No, indeed!” exclaimed Kittie.
“Then here goes the basket!” cried the fox, and, just to be mean he threw the nice basket, containing the cornmeal pudding—I mean pie—into the pond of water.
“Oh! Oh! Oh dear!” cried Kittie Kat. “What will Grandfather Goosey Gander do now?”
“Never mind, I’ll get it for you, as I don’t mind water in the least,” spoke Bully, bravely.
So he started to hop out, to jump into the water to save the kittie girl’s basket, for he knew the fox wouldn’t dare go in the pond after him, as the fox doesn’t like to wet his feet and catch cold.
Well, Bully was just about to hop into the pond, when he happened to think of the package of cocoanut his mamma had sent him to get at the store.
“Oh, dear! I never can get that wet in the water or it will be spoiled!” he thought. “What can I do? If I leave it on the shore here while I go after Kittie’s basket the fox will eat it, and we’ll have no cake. I guess I’m in trouble, all right, for I must get the basket.”
Well, he didn’t know what to do, and the fox was just sneaking up to eat him when Kittie Kat cried out:
“Oh, be careful, Bully. Jump! Jump into the water so the fox can’t get you!”
“What about the cocoanut?” asked Bully.