`` True enough , Peter . True enough , '' replied Blacky , his eyes twinkling . `` But I thought they might be . I had heard a rumor that those who go south are traveling earlier than usual this fall , so I knew I might find Mr. and Mrs. Quack over here any time now . Is it true , Mrs. Quack , that we are going to have a long , hard , cold winter ? '' `` That is what they say up in the Far North , '' replied Mrs. Quack . `` And it is true that Jack Frost had started down earlier than usual . That is how it happens we are here now . But about those hunters over by the Big River , do you suppose they will come over here ? '' There was an anxious note in Mrs. Quack 's voice . `` No , '' replied Blacky promptly . `` Farmer Brown 's boy wo n't let them . I know . I 've been watching him and he has been watching those hunters . As long as you stay here , you will be safe . What a great world this would be if all those two-legged creatures were like Farmer Brown 's boy . '' `` Would n't it ! '' cried Peter . Then he added , `` I wish they were . '' `` You do n't wish it half as much as I do , '' declared Mrs. Quack .
`` Yet I can remember when he used to hunt with a terrible gun and was as bad as the worst of them , '' said XXXXX .
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