“I just made your picture,” said Mole in a sleepy voice, “and nobody can ever say that I ever took the wrong animal. Isn’t your name Sly Fox?”
“O, yes,” replied Sly Fox, “but I am a very handsome animal.”
“I can’t see that you are,” replied the Mole. “That is your picture, and now you’ll have to pay for it.”
So Ugly Dog and Mole took pay for a dozen pictures and put the photograph up just in front of Sly Fox, where he could see it and could not reach it.
“Take it away. Take it away,” cried Sly Fox.
Ugly Dog and Mole went away to dinner and left Sly Fox sitting in the chair snarling and crying. He stayed there for two hours, until his friend Patrick O’Possum came along and unscrewed the tongs and let him go. Ever since that Sly Fox has not been nearly so proud of himself, and he has never played another trick on Ugly Dog.
AT LITTLE MONKEY’S SWIMMING SCHOOL
