There was an anxious note in Mrs. Quack 's voice . `` No , '' replied Blacky promptly . `` Farmer Brown 's boy wo n't let them . I know . I 've been watching him and he has been watching those hunters . As long as you stay here , you will be safe . What a great world this would be if all those two-legged creatures were like Farmer Brown 's boy . '' `` Would n't it ! '' cried Peter . Then he added , `` I wish they were . '' `` You do n't wish it half as much as I do , '' declared Mrs. Quack . `` Yet I can remember when he used to hunt with a terrible gun and was as bad as the worst of them , '' said Blacky . `` What changed him ? '' asked Mrs. Quack , looking interested . `` Just getting really acquainted with some of the little people of the Green Forest and the Green Meadows , '' replied Blacky . `` He found them ready to meet him more than halfway in friendship and that some of them really are his best friends . '' `` And now he is their best friend , '' spoke up Peter . Blacky nodded . `` Right , Peter , '' said he . `` That is why the Quacks are safe here and will be as long as they stay . ''
CHAPTER XV : XXXXX Does A Little Looking About Do not take the word of others That things are or are not so When there is a chance that you may Find out for yourself and know .
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