It's what you do for others,    Not what they do for you,
   That makes you feel so happy
   All through and through and through.
     —Old Granny Fox.
Reddy Fox ran all the way home from the Big River just as fast as he could go. In his mouth he carried the fish he had found and from which he had taken just two bites. You remember he had had a battle with himself over that fish, and now he was running away from himself. That sounds funny, doesn't it? But it was true. Yes, Sir, Reddy Fox was running away from himself. He was afraid that if he didn't get home to Old Granny Fox with that fish very soon, he would eat every last bit of it himself. So he was running his very hardest so as to get there before this could happen. So really he was running away from himself, from his selfish self.
 
Old Granny Fox was on the doorstep watching for him, and he saw just how her hungry old eyes brightened when she saw him and what he had.
 
“I've brought you something to eat, Granny,” he panted, as he laid the fish at her feet. He was quite out of breath with running. “It isn't much, but it is something. It is all I could find for you.”
 
Granny looked at the fish and then she looked sharply at Reddy, and into those keen yellow eyes of hers crept a soft, tender look, such a look as you would never have believed they could have held.
 
“What have YOU had to eat?” asked Granny softly.
 
Reddy turned his head that Granny might not see his face. “Oh, I've had something,” said he, trying to speak lightly. It was true; he had had two bites from that fish.
 
Now you know just how shrewd and smart and wise Granny Fox is. Reddy didn't fool her just the least little bit. She took two small bites from the fish.
 
“Now,” said she, “we'll divide it,” and she bit in two parts what remained. In a twinkling she had gulped down the smallest part, for you know she was ............