title: The fantastic Mr. Fox
author:  Roald Dahl 
description: &quot;This reprint of the 1970 edition tells the story of clever Mr. Fox, his adoring wife, and their four small children, who outsmart three of the nastiest, ugliest, and ultimately dumbest farmers ever to raise poultry. Librarians will want to consider purchasing this newly released edition.&quot;--<i>Booklist.</i>&#160;&#160;
zlib_text: Roald Dahl
  Fantastic Mr Fox
   
   
  1    The Three Farmers
   
  Down in the valley there were three farms. The owners of these farms had
  done well. They were rich men. They were also nasty men. All three of
  them were about as nasty and mean as any men you could meet. Their
  names were Farmer Boggis, Farmer Bunce and Farmer Bean.
  Boggis was a chicken farmer. He kept thousands of chickens. He was
  enormously fat. This was because he ate three boiled chickens smothered
  with dumplings every day for breakfast, lunch and supper.
  Bunce was a duck-and-goose farmer. He kept thousands of ducks and
  geese. He was a kind of pot-bellied dwarf. He was so short his chin would
  have been underwater in the shallow end of any swimming-pool in the
  world. His food was doughnuts and goose-livers. He mashed the livers into
  a disgusting paste and then stuffed the paste into the doughnuts. This diet
  gave him a tummy-ache and a beastly temper.
  Bean was a turkey-and-apple farmer. He kept thousands of turkeys in an
  orchard