`` Do n't do it , '' said another little voice . `` Hooty may be a robber , but he has a place in the Green Forest , or Old Mother Nature never would have put him here . It is just as much stealing to take his eggs as to take the eggs of any other bird . He has just as much right to them as Jenny Wren has to hers . '' `` Take one and leave one , '' said the first voice . `` That will be just as much stealing as if you took both , '' said the second voice . `` Besides , you will be breaking your own word . You said that you never would take another egg . '' `` I did n't promise anybody but myself , '' declared Farmer Brown 's boy right out loud . At the sound of his voice , Hooty and Mrs. Hooty , sitting in the next tree , snapped their bills and hissed louder than ever . `` A promise to yourself ought to be just as good as a promise to any one else . I do n't wonder Hooty hisses at you , '' said the good little voice . `` Think how fine those eggs will look in your collection and how proud you will be to show them to the other fellows who never have found a nest of Hooty 's , '' said the first little voice . `` And think how mean and small and cheap you 'll feel every time you look at them , '' added the good little voice . `` You 'll get a lot more fun if you leave them to hatch out and then watch the little Owls grow up and learn all about their ways . Just think what a stout , brave fellow Hooty is to start housekeeping at this time of year , and how wonderful it is that Mrs. Hooty can keep these eggs warm and when they have hatched take care of the baby Owls before others have even begun to build their nests . Besides , wrong is wrong and right is right , always . '' Slowly Farmer Brown 's boy reached over the edge of the nest and put back the egg . Then he began to climb down the tree . When he reached the ground he went off a little way and watched .
Almost at once Mrs. XXXXX flew to the nest and settled down on the eggs , while Hooty mounted guard close by .
Brown Hooty Nature Owls Wren first hisses right second year