He pretended to be looking for scattered grains of corn , but all the time he was edging nearer and nearer to the open door of the henhouse . At last he could see the box with the hay in it . He walked right up to the open door and peered inside . There was nothing to be afraid of that he could see . Still he hesitated . He did hate to go inside that door , even for a minute , and that is all it would take to fly up to that nest and get one of those eggs . Blacky closed his eyes for just a second , and when he did that he seemed to see himself eating one of those eggs . `` What are you afraid of ? '' he muttered to himself as he opened his eyes . Then with a hurried look in all directions , he flew up to the edge of the box . There lay the two eggs ! CHAPTER XXXI : An Egg That Would n't Behave If you had an egg and it would n't behave Just what would you do with that egg , may I ask ? To make an egg do what it do n't want to do Strikes me like a difficult sort of a task . All of which is pure nonsense . Of course . Who ever heard of an egg either behaving or misbehaving ? Nobody . That is , nobody that I know , unless it be Blacky . It is best not to mention eggs in Blacky 's presence these days . They are a forbidden topic when he is about .
XXXXX is apt to be a little resentful at the mere mention of an egg .
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