Such a racket ! Right away Hooty was forgotten , and the whole crowd at once began to torment Mrs. Hooty . Only Blacky sat watchful and silent , waiting for Mrs. Hooty to lose her temper and try to catch one of her tormentors . He had hope , a great hope , that he would get one of those eggs . CHAPTER VIII : Hooty Comes To Mrs. Hooty 's Aid No one can live just for self alone . A lot of people think they can , but they are very much mistaken . They are making one of the greatest mistakes in the world . Every teeny , weeny act , no matter what it is , affects somebody else . That is one of Old Mother Nature 's great laws . And it is just as true among the little people of the Green Forest and the Green Meadows as with boys and girls and grown people . It is Old Mother Nature 's way of making each of us responsible for the good of all and of teaching us that always we should help each other . As you know , when Blacky the Crow called all his relatives over to the nest where Mrs. Hooty was sitting on her eggs , they at once stopped tormenting Hooty and left him alone in a thick hemlock-tree in the darkest part of the Green Forest . Of course Hooty was very , very glad to be left in peace , and he might have spent the rest of the day there sleeping in comfort . But he did n't . No , Sir , he did n't . At first he gave a great sigh of relief and settled himself as if he meant to stay . He listened to the voices of those noisy Crows growing fainter and fainter and was glad . But it was only for a few minutes . Presently those voices stopped growing fainter . They grew more excited-sounding than ever , and they came right from one place .
XXXXX knew then that his tormentors had found the nest where Mrs. Hooty was , and that they were tormenting her just as they had tormented him .
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