Had he not routed all presumptuous enemies but the Boy?
And the latter seemed very harmless.

But a few days the garden occupied all his attention--when he was not busy enlarging and deepening his hole under the fence and digging a second entrance to it.

He noticed that the Boy had a foolish habit of standing and watching him; but to this he had no serious objection, the more so as he found that the Boy's presence was often accompanied by a saucer of milk.
"It was not till after several days of garden life that, lured by the memory of the carrot, he again visited the barnyard.

At first it seemed to be quite deserted.

And there was no sign of a carrot anywhere.