Now Blacky occasionally makes a mistake that smart people are very aptto make; he thinks that because he is so smart, other people arestupid. That is where he proves that smart as he is, he isn't assmart as he thinks he is. He always thought of Hooty the 0wl asstupid. That is, he always thought of him that way in daytime. Atnight, when he was waked out of a sound sleep by the fierce huntingcry of Hooty, he wasn't so sure about Hooty being stupid, and healways took care to sit perfectly still in the unlitness, lestHooty's great ears should hear him and

Hooty's great eyes, made for seeing in the unlit, should findhim. No, in the night Blacky was not at all sure that Hooty wasstupid.