Almost at once Mrs. Hooty flew to the nest and settled down on the eggs , while Hooty mounted guard close by . `` I 'm glad I did n't take 'em , '' said Farmer Brown 's boy . `` Yes , Sir , I 'm glad I did n't take 'em . '' As he turned back toward home , he saw Blacky the Crow flying over the Green Forest , and little did he guess how he had upset Blacky 's plans . CHAPTER XIII : Blacky Has A Change Of Heart Blacky The Crow is n't all black . No , indeed . His coat is black , and sometimes it seems as if his heart is all black , but this is n't so . It certainly seemed as if his heart was all black when he tried so hard to make trouble for Hooty the Owl . It would seem as if only a black heart could have urged him to try so hard to steal the eggs of Hooty and Mrs. Hooty , but this was n't really so . You see , it did n't seem at all wrong to try to get those eggs . Blacky was hungry , and those eggs would have given him a good meal . He knew that Hooty would n't hesitate to catch him and eat him if he had the chance , and so it seemed to him perfectly right and fair to steal Hooty 's eggs if he was smart enough to do so . And most of the other little people of the Green Forest and the Green Meadows would have felt the same way about it . You see , it is one of the laws of Old Mother Nature that each one must learn to look out for himself . But when Blacky showed that nest of Hooty 's to Farmer Brown 's boy with the hope that Farmer Brown 's boy would steal those eggs , there was blackness in his heart . He was doing something then which was pure meanness . He was just trying to make trouble for Hooty , to get even because Hooty had been too smart for him . He had sat in the top of a tall pine-tree where he could see all that happened , and he had chuckled wickedly as he had seen Farmer Brown 's boy climb to Hooty 's nest and take out an egg . He felt sure that he would take both eggs . He hoped so , anyway .
When he saw Farmer XXXXX 's boy put the eggs back and climb down the tree without any , he had to blink his eyes to make sure that he saw straight .
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