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 . '' Blacky was right .
Farmer XXXXX 's boy had taken that way of making sure that the hunter who had first baited those Ducks with yellow corn scattered in the rushes in front of his hiding place should have no chance to kill any of them .
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