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 , Bowser turned and limped away through the trees , and he limped in the direction which Blacky the Crow had taken . You see , he could still hear Blacky 's voice calling `` Caw , caw , caw '' , and somehow it made him feel better , less lonesome , you know , to be within hearing of a voice he knew . Bowser had to go on three legs , for one leg had been so hurt in the fall over the bank that he could not put his foot to the ground . Then , too , he was very , very stiff from the cold and the wetting he had received the night before .
So poor XXXXX made slow work of it , and Blacky the Crow almost lost patience waiting for him to appear .
Blacky Bowser before caw ground hearing sense sight something tree-tops