CHAPTER V : Sammy Jay Brings Lightfoot Word Sammy Jay is one of those who believe in the wisdom of the old saying , `` Early to bed and early to rise . '' Sammy needs no alarm clock to get up early in the morning . He is awake as soon as it is light enough to see and wastes no time wishing he could sleep a little longer . His stomach would n't let him if he wanted to . Sammy always wakes up hungry . In this he is no different from all his feathered neighbors . So the minute Sammy gets his eyes open he makes his toilet , for Sammy is very neat , and starts out to hunt for his breakfast . Long ago Sammy discovered that there is no safer time of day to visit the dooryards of those two-legged creatures called men than very early in the morning . On this particular morning he had planned to fly over to Farmer Brown 's dooryard , but at the last minute he changed his mind . Instead , he flew over to the dooryard of another farm . It was so very early in the morning that Sammy did n't expect to find anybody stirring , so you can guess how surprised he was when , just as he came in sight of that dooryard , he saw the door of the house open and a man step out . Sammy stopped on the top of the nearest tree . `` Now what is that man doing up as early as this ? '' muttered Sammy . Then he caught sight of something under the man 's arm . He did n't have to look twice to know what it was . It was a gun ! Yes , sir , it was a gun , a terrible gun . `` Ha ! '' exclaimed Sammy , and quite forgot that his stomach was empty .
`` Now who can that fellow be after so early in the XXXXX ?
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