next he walked into the hen-house, saying to the other crows, "you might have a good time, too, if you were not such cowards." he had no more than gotten the words out of his bill, when the door of the hen-house blew shut and caught there. it was a grated door and he scrambled wildly to get through the openings. while he was trying, he heard the hoarse voice of the crow whom he had beaten the day before, saying, "thank you, we are having a fairly good time as it is"; and he saw miss crow picking daintily at some corn which the speaker had scratched up for her.