This made Blacky uneasy . You see , he had something of a guilty conscience . Not that he felt at all a sense of having done wrong . To his way of thinking , if he were smart enough to get that egg , he had just as much right to it as any one else , particularly Farmer Brown 's boy . Yet he was n't at all sure that Farmer Brown 's boy would look at the matter quite that way . In fact , he had a feeling that Farmer Brown 's boy would call him a thief if he should be discovered with that egg . Then , too , there were too many sharp eyes in the Old Orchard . He wanted to get away where he could be sure of being alone . Then if he could n't break that shell , no one would be the wiser . So he picked up the egg and flew straight over to the Green Forest , and this time he managed to get there without dropping it . Now you would never suspect Blacky the Crow , he of the sharp wits and crafty ways , of being amused by bright things , would you ? But he is . In fact , Blacky is quite like a little child in this matter . Anything that is bright and shiny interests Blacky right away . If he finds anything of this kind , he will take it away to a certain secret place , and there he will admire it and play with it and finally hide it . If I did n't know that it is n't so , because it could n't possibly be so , I should think that Blacky was some relation to certain small boys I know . Always their pockets are filled with all sorts of useless odds and ends which they have picked up here and there . Blacky has no pockets , so he keeps his treasures of this kind in a secret hiding-place , a sort of treasure storehouse . He visits this secretly every day , uncovers his treasures , and gloats over them and plays with them , then carefully covers them up again . First Blacky took this egg over near his home , and there he once more tried and tried and tried to break the shell .
But the shell would n't break , not even when XXXXX quite lost his temper and hammered at it for all he was worth .
Blacky Brown Forest day ends hiding-place home right something things