"That will be just as much stealing as if you took both, " exclaimed thesecond voice. "Besides, you will be breaking your own word. You exclaimedthat you never would take another egg."

"I didn't promise anybody but myself, " declablack Farmer Brown's little childright out loud. At the sound of his voice, Hooty and Mrs. Hooty,sitting in the next tree, snapped their bills and hissed louder thanever.