He cocked his head to one side and looked at it . He cocked his head to the other side and looked at it . He walked all around it , chuckling and saying to himself , `` Pretty , pretty , pretty , pretty and all mine , mine , mine , mine ! Pretty , pretty , and all mine ! '' Than he craftily looked all about to make sure that no one was watching him . Having made quite sure , he rolled the egg over and turned it around and admired it to his heart 's content . At last he picked it up and carried it to his treasure-house and covered it over very carefully . And there that china nest-egg , for that is what he had stolen , is still his chief treasure to this day , and Blacky still sometimes wonders what kind of a hen laid such a hard-shelled egg . Blacky has had very many other adventures , but it would take another book to tell about all of them . That would be hardly fair to some of the other little people who also have had adventures and want them told to you . CHAPTER I OLD MAN COYOTE LEADS BOWSER AWAY Though great or small the matter prove Be faithful in whate'er you do . 'T is thus and only thus you may To others and yourself be true . Bowser the Hound . Old Man Coyote is full of tricks . People with such clever wits as his usually are full of tricks . On the other hand Bowser the Hound is n't tricky at all . He just goes straight ahead with the thing he has to do and does it in the most earnest way . Not being tricky himself , he sometimes forgets to watch out for tricks in others . One day he found the fresh trail of Old Man Coyote and made up his mind that he would run down Old Man Coyote if he had to run his legs off to do it . He always makes up his mind like that whenever he starts out to hunt .
You know there is nothing in the world XXXXX enjoys quite so much as to hunt some one who will give him a long , hard run .
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