That is , he always thought of him that way in daytime . At night , when he was waked out of a sound sleep by the fierce hunting cry of Hooty , he was n't so sure about Hooty being stupid , and he always took care to sit perfectly still in the darkness , lest Hooty 's great ears should hear him and Hooty 's great eyes , made for seeing in the dark , should find him . No , in the night Blacky was not at all sure that Hooty was stupid . But in the daytime he was sure . You see , he quite forgot the fact that the brightness of day is to Hooty what the blackness of night is to him . So , because Hooty would simply sit still and hiss and snap his bill , instead of trying to catch his tormentors or flying away , Blacky called him stupid . He felt sure that Hooty would stay right where he was now , and he hoped that Mrs. Hooty would lose her temper and leave the nest where she was sitting on those two eggs and join Hooty to help him try to drive away that noisy crew . But Hooty is n't stupid . Not a bit of it . The minute he found out that Blacky and his friends had discovered him , he thought of Mrs. Hooty and the two precious eggs in the old nest of Redtail the Hawk close by . `` Mrs. Hooty must n't be disturbed , '' thought he . `` That will never do at all . I must lead these black rascals away where they wo n't discover Mrs. Hooty . I certainly must . '' So he spread his broad wings and blundered away among the trees a little way . He did n't fly far because the instant he started to fly that whole noisy crew with the exception of Blacky were after him . Because he could n't use his claws or bill while flying , they grew bold enough to pull a few feathers out of his back . So he flew only a little way to a thick hemlock-tree , where it was n't easy for the Crows to get at him , and where the light did n't hurt his eyes so much . There he rested a few minutes and then did the same thing over again . He meant to lead those bothersome Crows into the darkest part of the Green Forest and there -- well , he could see better there , and it might be that one of them would be careless enough to come within reach .
No , XXXXX was n't stupid .
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