`` I changed my mind ! '' he snapped . `` What are you screaming so for ? '' `` Just to exercise my lungs , so as to be sure that I can scream when I want to , '' replied Sammy , screaming still louder . `` Well , go somewhere else and scream ; I want to sleep , '' said Reddy crossly . Now Sammy Jay knew perfectly well that Reddy Fox had no thought of taking a nap but was hiding there to try to catch Johnny Chuck . And Sammy knew that Farmer Brown 's boy could hear him scream , and that he knew that when Sammy screamed that way it meant there was a fox about . Sitting in the top of the apple-tree , Sammy could see Farmer Brown 's boy starting for the old orchard , with Bowser the Hound running ahead of him . Farmer Brown 's boy had no gun , so Sammy knew that no harm would come to Reddy , but that Reddy would get a dreadful scare ; and that is what Sammy wanted , just out of pure mischief . So he screamed louder than ever . Reddy Fox lost his temper . He sat up and called Sammy Jay all the bad names he could think of . He forgot where he was . He told Sammy Jay what he thought of him and what he would do to him if ever he caught him . Sammy Jay kept right on screaming . He made such a noise that Reddy did n't hear footsteps coming nearer and nearer . Suddenly there was a great roar right behind him . `` Bow , wow , wow ! Bow , wow , wow , wow ! '' -- just like that .
Reddy was so frightened that he did n't even look XXXXX see where he was jumping , and bumped his head against the apple-tree .
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