I would be willing to divide with him, but he would be sure
to eat his first, and I fear that it would taste so good that he
would eat the other. No. I've got to get one of those eggs
myself. It is the only way I can be sure of it.
"The thing to do is to make sure that Farmer Brown's boy and Farmer
Brown himself are nowhere about. They ought to be down in the
cornfield pretty soon. With them down there, I have only to watch my
chance and slip in. It won't take but a second. Just a little
courage, Blacky, just a little courage! Nothing in this world worth
having is gained without some risk. The thing to do is to make sure
that the risk is as small as possible."
Blacky shook out his feathers and then flew out of the tall
pine-tree as silently as he had flown into it. He headed straight
toward Farmer Brown's cornfield. When he was near enough to see all
over the field, he dropped down to the top of a fence post, and
there he waited. he didn't have long to wait. In fact, he had been
there but a few minutes
when he spied two people coming down the Long Lane toward the
cornfield. He looked at them sharply, and then gave a little sigh of
satisfaction. They were Farmer Brown and Farmer Brown's
boy. Presently they reached the cornfield and turned into it. Then
they went to work, and Blacky knew that so far as they were
concerned, the way was clear for him to visit the henyard.
He didn't fly straight there.
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