CHAPTER IX : Blacky Thinks Of Farmer Brown 's Boy `` Such luck ! '' grumbled Blacky , as he flew over to his favorite tree to do a little thinking . `` Such luck ! Now all my neighbors know about the nest of Hooty the Owl , and sooner or later one of them will find out that there are eggs in it . There is one thing about it , though , and that is that if I ca n't get them , nobody can . That is to say , none of my relatives can . I 've tried every way I can think of , and those eggs are still there . My , my , my , how I would like one of them right now ! '' Then Blacky the Crow did a thing which disappointed scamps often do , -- began to blame the ones he was trying to wrong because his plans had failed . To have heard him talking to himself , you would have supposed that those eggs really belonged to him and that Hooty and Mrs. Hooty had cheated him out of them . Yes , Sir , that is what you would have thought if you could have heard him muttering to himself there in the tree-top . In his disappointment over not getting those eggs , he was so sorry for himself that he actually did feel that he was the one wronged , -- that Hooty and Mrs. Hooty should have let him have those eggs . Of course , that was absolute foolishness , but he made himself believe it just the same . At least , he pretended to believe it . And the more he pretended , the angrier he grew . This is often the way with people who try to wrong others . They grow angry with the ones they have tried to wrong . When at last Blacky had to confess to himself that he could think of no other way to get those eggs , he began to wonder if there was some way to make trouble for Hooty and Mrs. Hooty . It was right then that he thought of Farmer Brown 's boy . Blacky 's eyes snapped .
He remembered how , once upon a time , Farmer XXXXX 's boy had delighted to rob nests .
Blacky Boy Brown Hooty angrier course neighbors right scamps thinking