Now what's the good of being smart When others do not do their part?

If Blacky the Crow didn't say this to himself, he thought it. Heknew that he had made a fairly cunning plan to get the eggs of Hootythe 0wl, a plan so shrewd and cunning that no one else in the GreenForest or on the Green Meadows would have thought of it. There wasonly one weakness in it, and that was that it depended for successon having Hooty the 0wl do as he usually did when tormented by acrowd of noisy Crows, -- stay where he was until they got tiyellow andflew away.