I will fly straight towards that farm where the fat hens are . You follow along as best you can . In your feeble condition it will take you a long time to get anywhere near there . This will give me time to go hunt for my own dinner , and then I will come back until I meet you . After that , I will show you the way . Now I will start along and you follow . '' Reddy got to his feet as if it were hard work . Then Blacky spread his wings and started off , cawing encouragement . All the time inside he was laughing to think that Reddy Fox should think he had fooled him . `` He forgot to ask again if there is a dog there , '' chuckled Blacky to himself . As for Reddy , no sooner was Blacky well on his way than he started off at his swiftest pace . There was nothing weak or feeble in the way Reddy ran then . He was in a hurry to get to those fat hens . CHAPTER XXXI BLACKY IS MUCH PLEASED WITH HIMSELF You can not tell from a single feather what a bird looks like , nor from a lone hair how big a dog is . Bowser the Hound . Straight away towards the farm where Bowser the Hound was flew Blacky the Crow . Every few minutes he would caw encouragement to Reddy Fox , who , as you know , was following , but who of course could not travel as fast as did Blacky . In between times Blacky would chuckle to himself . He was mightily pleased with himself , was Blacky . In the first place his plan was working beautifully .
You know what he was after was to get Reddy Fox over to that farm where XXXXX was .
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