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XIII DON\'T DO THAT!
Benny Badger turned in his tracks and went straight back to the place where he had left Mr. Fox.

But Mr. Fox was nowhere to be seen.

So Benny began asking everybody he met if he had caught a glimpse of Mr. Fox that night. First he asked a white-footed deer mouse, who pointed behind him and said that he had just seen Mr. Fox "over there." Then Benny put his question to a frightened prairie dog, who claimed that he had noticed Mr. Fox "over there," as he pointed in a direction exactly opposite. And still another reported that he had no[63]ticed Mr. Fox in an entirely different place.

"That\'s odd!" Benny Badger said to himself. "How can he be in three places at once?" And since he could not answer that question, he decided to look in none of those three directions, but to try a fourth, because he felt sure that none of the three could be the right one. And besides, if Mr. Fox had really been where he was said to have been seen, he was such a roving fellow that he would have moved on.

Well, where he looked next, Benny found Mr. Fox.

"What luck?" Benny asked that wily gentleman once more.

Mr. Fox replied somewhat stiffly that he had nothing to say.

"What\'s that on your mouth?" Benny Badger demanded suddenly.[64]

Mr. Fox hastily rubbed his paw across his mouth.

"It can\'t be egg," he blurted.

"Egg!" Benny Badger shouted. "I hadn\'t mentioned egg! But now that you mention egg, perhaps that\'s it."

Mr. Fox looked most ill at ease. But he made no reply.

"What\'s that clinging to your shoulder?" asked Benny Badger abruptly.

"It can\'t be a feather," said Mr. Fox, nervously brushing off his shoulder as he spoke.

"A feather!" Benny Badger exclaimed. "I\'ve said nothing about a feather! Bu............
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