Do you wonder that he whimpered and whined as he limped along over the hard snow , and had n't the least idea whether he was headed towards home or deeper into the great woods ? For a long time he kept on until it seemed to him he could n't drag one foot after another . Then quite suddenly something big and dark loomed up in front of him . It really was n't as big as it seemed . It was a little house , a sugar camp , just such a one as Farmer Brown has near his home . Bowser crept to the door . It was closed . Bowser sniffed and sniffed and his heart sank , for there was no scent of human beings . Then he knew that that little house was deserted and empty . Still he whined and scratched at the door . By and by the door opened ever so little , for it had not been locked . Bowser crept in . In one corner he found some hay , and in this he curled up . It was cold , very cold , but not nearly as cold as outside that little house . So Bowser curled up in the hay and shivered and shook and slept a little and wished with all his might that he never had found the tracks of Old Man Coyote . CHAPTER VI THE SURPRISE OF BLACKY THE CROW The harder it is to follow a trail The greater the reason you should not fail . Bowser the Hound . At all seasons of the year Blacky the Crow is something of a traveler . But in winter he is much more of a traveler than in summer . You see , in winter it is not nearly so easy to pick up a living .
Food is quite as scarce for XXXXX the Crow in winter as for any of the other little people who neither sleep the winter away nor go south .
Blacky Bowser Brown VI foot heart house traveler woods year