He was quite hidden there , excepting from a place high up like Blacky 's perch . `` I -- I -- I do believe he is going to try to shoot those Ducks himself , '' gasped Blacky . `` I would n't have believed it if any one had told me . No , Sir , I would n't have believed it . I -- I -- ca n't believe it now . Farmer Brown 's boy hunting with a terrible gun ! Yet I 've got to believe my own eyes . '' A noise up river caught his attention . It was the noise of oars in a boat . There was the hunter , rowing down the Big River . Just as he had done the day before , he came ashore above his blind and walked down to it . `` This is no place for me , '' muttered Blacky . `` He 'll remember that I scared those Ducks yesterday , and as likely as not he 'll try to shoot me . '' Blacky spread his black wings and hurriedly left the tree-top , heading for another tree farther back on the Green Meadows where he would be safe , but from which he could not see as well . There he sat until the Black Shadows warned him that it was high time for him to be getting back to the Green Forest . He had to hurry , for it was later than usual , and he was afraid to be out after dark . Just as he reached the Green Forest he heard a faint `` bang , bang '' from over by the Big River , and he knew that it came from the place where Farmer Brown 's boy was hiding in the rushes . `` It is true , '' croaked Blacky . `` Farmer Brown 's boy has turned hunter . '' It was such a dreadful shock to Blacky that it was a long time before he could go to sleep .
CHAPTER XXVI : Why The Hunter Got No Ducks The hunter who had come down the Big XXXXX in a boat and landed near the place where Dusky the Black Duck and his flock had found nice yellow corn scattered in the rushes night after night saw Blacky the Crow leave the top of a certain tree as he approached .
Blacky Brown Forest Meadows River Shadows Sir left oars rowing