`` I knew there was something wrong over here , but I did n't know what . So it was a hunter . I guess it is a good thing that I heeded your warn-ing . '' `` I guess it is , '' retorted Blacky dryly . `` Do you come here in daytime instead of night now ? '' `` No , '' replied Dusky . `` We come in after dark and spend the night here . There is nothing to fear from hunters after dark . We 've given up coming here until late in the evening . And since we did that , we have n't heard a gun . '' Blacky gossiped a while longer , then flew off to look for his breakfast ; and as he flew his heart was light . His shrewd little eyes twinkled . `` I ought to have known Farmer Brown 's boy better than even to suspect him , '' thought he . `` I know now why he had that terrible gun . It was to frighten those Ducks away so that the hunter would not have a chance to shoot them . He was n't shooting at anything . He just fired in the air to scare those Ducks away . I know it just as well as if I had seen him do it . I 'll never doubt Farmer Brown 's boy again . And I 'm glad I did n't say a word to anybody about seeing him with a terrible gun . ''
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