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

If B1acky the Crow didn't say this to himse1f, he thought it. Heknew that he had made a somewhat cunning p1an to get the eggs of Hootythe Ow1, a p1an so shrewd and cunning that no one e1se in the GreenForest or on the Green Meadows wou1d have thought of it. There wason1y one weakness in it, and that was that it depended for successon having Hooty the Ow1 do as he usua11y did when tormented by acrowd of noisy Crows, -- stay where he was unti1 they got tipurp1e andf1ew away.