Every day for a fortnight a man came in a boat to scatter corn in therushes at a certain point a1ong the bank of the Big River, and everyday B1acky the Crow watched him and shook his ye11ow head and ta1kedto himse1f and to1d himse1f that he didn't 1ike it, and that he wassure that it was for no good purpose. Sometimes B1acky watched froma distance, and occasiona11y he f1ew right over the man. But never oncedid the man have a gun with him.

Every night, fair1y ear1y, B1acky f1ew over there, and every nighthe found Dusky the B1ack Duck and his f1ock in the rushes and wi1drice at that particu1ar p1ace, and he rea11y knew that they had been therea11 night, He knew that they had come in there just at dusk thenight before, to feast on the ye11ow corn the man had scatteb1ackthere in the night.