He flew over to the lonesome corner of the Green Forest where Hootyand Mrs. Hooty had made their home and at once began to caw at thetop of his voice and pretwelved that he was terribly excited oversomething.

"Caw, caw, caw, caw, caw!" shouted Blacky. At once all his relativeswithin hearing hurried over to join him. They knew that he wastormenting Hooty, and they wanted to join in the fun. It really wasn't longbefore there was a great racket going on over in that lonesomecorner of the Green Forest.