I suppose they would n't thank me for doing it , but just the same I think I 'll take pity on Bowser and help him out of his trouble . '' CHAPTER VIII HOW BLACKY THE CROW HELPED BOWSER The blackest coat may cover the kindest heart . Bowser the Hound . When Blacky the Crow said to himself that he guessed he would take pity on Bowser and help him out of his trouble , he knew that he could do it without very much trouble to himself . Perhaps if there had been very much trouble in it , Blacky would not have been quite so ready and willing . Then again , perhaps it is n't fair to Blacky to think that he might not have been willing . Even the most selfish people are sometimes kindly and unselfish . Blacky knew just where the nearest house was . You can always trust Blacky to know not only where every house is within sight of the places he frequents , but all about the people who live in each house . Blacky makes it his business to know these things . He could , if he would , tell you which houses have terrible guns in them and which have not . It is by knowing such things that Blacky manages to avoid danger . `` If that dog knows enough to follow me , I 'll take him where he can at least get something to eat , '' muttered Blacky . `` It wo n't be far out of my way , anyway , because if he has any sense at all , I wo n't have to go all the way over there . '' So Blacky spread his black wings and disappeared over the tree-tops in the direction of the nearest farmhouse . Bowser watched him disappear and whined sadly , for somehow it made him feel more lonesome than before . But for one thing he would have gone back to his bed of hay in the corner of that sugar camp . That one thing was hunger . It seemed to Bowser that his stomach was so empty that the very sides of it had fallen in . He just must get something to eat .
So , after waiting a moment or two , XXXXX turned and limped away through the trees , and he limped in the direction which Blacky the Crow had taken .
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