I know it just as well as if I had seen him do it . I 'll never doubt Farmer Brown 's boy again . And I 'm glad I did n't say a word to anybody about seeing him with a terrible gun . '' Blacky was right . Farmer Brown 's boy had taken that way of making sure that the hunter who had first baited those Ducks with yellow corn scattered in the rushes in front of his hiding place should have no chance to kill any of them . While appearing to be an enemy , he really had been a friend of Dusky the Black Duck and his flock . CHAPTER XXIX : Blacky Discovers An Egg Blacky is fond of eggs , as you know . In this he is a great deal like other people , Farmer Brown 's boy for instance . But as Blacky can not keep hens , as Farmer Brown 's boy does , he is obliged to steal eggs or else go without . If you come right down to plain , everyday truth , I suppose Blacky is n't so far wrong when he insists that he is no more of a thief than Farmer Brown 's boy . Blacky says that the eggs which the bens lay belong to the hens , and that he , Blacky has just as much right to take them as Farmer Brown 's boy . He quite overlooks the fact that Farmer Brown 's boy feeds the biddies and takes the eggs as pay . Anyway , that is what Farmer Brown 's boy says , but I do not know whether or not the biddies understand it that way . So Blacky the Crow can not see why he should not help himself to an egg when he gets the chance . He does n't get the chance very often to steal eggs from the hens , because usually they lay their eggs in the henhouse , and Blacky is too suspicious to venture inside . The eggs he does get are mostly those of his neighbors in the Green Forest and the Old Orchard . But once in a great while some foolish hen will make a nest outside the henhouse somewhere , and if Blacky happens to find it the black scamp watches every minute he can spare from other mischief for a chance to steal an egg . Now Blacky knows just what a rogue Farmer Brown 's boy thinks he is , and for this reason Blacky is very careful about approaching Farmer Brown or any other man until he has made sure that he runs no risk of being shot . Blacky knows quite as well as any one what a gun looks like . He also knows that without a terrible gun , there is little Farmer Brown or any one else can do to him .
So when he sees Farmer Brown out in his fields , Blacky often will fly XXXXX over him and shout `` Caw , caw , caw , ca-a-w ! ''
Blacky Brown Forest Orchard XXIX bens first henhouse minute right