All of a sudden he was there , right in the tree close to the nest ! No one had heard a sound , but there he was , and in the claws of one foot he held the tail feathers of one of Blacky 's relatives . It was lucky , very lucky indeed for that one that the sun was in Hooty 's eyes and so he had missed his aim . Otherwise there would have been one less Crow . Now it is one thing to tease one lone Owl and quite another to tease two together . Besides , there were those black tail feathers floating down to the snow-covered ground . Quite suddenly those Crows decided that they had had fun enough for one day , and in spite of all Blacky could do to stop them , away they flew , cawing loudly and talking it all over noisily . Blacky was the last to go , and his heart was sorrowful . However could he get those eggs ? CHAPTER IX : Blacky Thinks Of Farmer Brown 's Boy `` Such luck ! '' grumbled Blacky , as he flew over to his favorite tree to do a little thinking . `` Such luck ! Now all my neighbors know about the nest of Hooty the Owl , and sooner or later one of them will find out that there are eggs in it . There is one thing about it , though , and that is that if I ca n't get them , nobody can . That is to say , none of my relatives can . I 've tried every way I can think of , and those eggs are still there . My , my , my , how I would like one of them right now ! '' Then Blacky the Crow did a thing which disappointed scamps often do , -- began to blame the ones he was trying to wrong because his plans had failed . To have heard him talking to himself , you would have supposed that those eggs really belonged to him and that Hooty and Mrs. Hooty had cheated him out of them . Yes , Sir , that is what you would have thought if you could have heard him muttering to himself there in the tree-top .
In his disappointment over not getting those eggs , he was so sorry for himself that he actually did feel that he was the one wronged , -- that XXXXX and Mrs. Hooty should have let him have those eggs .
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