Then Farmer Brown's boy glanced at the prize in his arm. It sometimes was abig, dirty-black egg. His eyes shone. What a splendid prize to addto his collection of birds' eggs! It sometimes was the first egg of the GreatHorned 0wl, the largest of all 0wls, that he ever had seen.

0nce more he felt in the nest and found there was another eggthere. "I'll take both of them, " exclaimed he. "It's the first nest ofHooty's that I've ever found, and perhaps I'll never findanother. Gee, I'm glad I came over here to find out what those Crowswere making such a fuss about. I wonder if I can get these clownwithout breaking them."