They could n't be anything else . Blacky kept right on flying . Somehow he did n't dare stop just then . He was too much excited by what he had discovered to think clearly . He had got to have time to get his wits together . Whoever had laid those eggs was big and strong . He felt sure of that . It must be some one a great deal bigger than himself , and he was of no mind to get into trouble , even for a dinner of fresh eggs . He must first find out whose they were ; then he would know better what to do . He felt sure that no one else knew about them , and he knew that they could n't run away . So he kept right on flying until he reached a certain tall pine-tree where he could sit and think without being disturbed . `` Eggs ! '' he muttered . `` Real eggs ! Now who under the sun can have moved into Redtail 's old house ? And what can they mean by laying eggs before Mistress Spring has even sent word that she has started ? It 's too much for me . It certainly is too much for me . '' CHAPTER III : Blacky Finds Out Who Owns The Eggs Two big white eggs in a tumbledown nest , and snow and ice everywhere ! Did ever anybody hear of such a thing before ?
`` Would n't believe it , if I had n't seen it with my own eyes , '' muttered XXXXX the Crow .
Blacky CHAPTER Redtail eggs first house pine-tree right sun wits