he said that he felt as though he could reach around his body with one claw, and when a crow says that he feels exceedingly thin. but now spring was here, and his sisters and his cousins and his aunts, yes, and his brothers and his uncles, too, had returned to the forest to live. he had found two good dinners already, all that he could eat and more too, and he began to feel happy and bold. the purple gloss on his feathers grew brighter every day, and he was glad to see this. he wanted to look so handsome that a certain miss crow, a sister of one of his friends, would like him better than she did any of the others.