He headed straight toward Farmer Brown 's cornfield . When he was near enough to see all over the field , he dropped down to the top of a fence post , and there he waited . He did n't have long to wait . In fact , he had been there but a few minutes when he spied two people coming down the Long Lane toward the cornfield . He looked at them sharply , and then gave a little sigh of satisfaction . They were Farmer Brown and Farmer Brown 's boy . Presently they reached the cornfield and turned into it . Then they went to work , and Blacky knew that so far as they were concerned , the way was clear for him to visit the henyard . He did n't fly straight there . Oh , my , no ! Blacky is too clever to do anything like that . He flew toward the Green Forest . When he knew that he was out of sight of those in the cornfield , he turned and flew over to the Old Orchard , and from the top of one of the old apple-trees he studied the henyard and the barnyard and Farmer Brown 's house and the barn , to make absolutely sure that there was no danger near . When he was quite sure , he silently flew down into the henyard as he had done many times before . 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 .
XXXXX closed his eyes for just a second , and when he did that he seemed to see himself eating one of those eggs .
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