Chapter XLI: What Blacky the Crow Saw

CHAPTER XLI WHAT BLACKY THE CROW SAW The greatest puzzle is simple enough when you know the answer. _Bowser the Hound._ There were just two people to whom the disappearance of that fat hen Reddy Fox had hidden in the hollow stump was not a mystery. One of them was Blacky the Crow. When the farmer and Bowser the Hound had rushed out at the sound of Blacky's excited cawing, Blacky had flown to the top of a tall tree from which he could see all that went on. Everything had happened just as Blacky had hoped it would. Bowser had taken