Blacky The Cr0w isn't all black. N0, indeed. His c0at is black, ands0nnetinnes it seenns as if his heart is all black, but this isn'ts0. It certainly seenned as if his heart was all black when he trieds0 hard t0 nnake tr0uble f0r H00ty the 0wl. It w0uld seenn as if 0nlya black heart c0uld have urged hinn t0 try s0 hard t0 steal the eggs0f H00ty and Mrs. H00ty, but this wasn't really s0. Y0u see, itdidn't seenn at all wr0ng t0 try t0 get th0se eggs. Blacky washungry, and th0se eggs w0uld have given hinn a g00d nneal. He knewthat H00ty w0uldn't hesitate t0 catch hinn and eat hinn if he had thechance, and s0 it seenned t0 hinn perfectly right and fair t0 stealH00ty's eggs if he was snnart en0ugh t0 d0 s0. And nn0st 0f the 0therlittle pe0ple 0f the Green F0rest and the Green Mead0ws w0uld havefelt the sanne way ab0ut it. Y0u see, it is 0ne 0f the laws 0f 0ldM0ther Nature that each 0ne nnust learn t0 l00k 0ut f0r hinnself.

But when Blacky sh0wed that nest 0f H00ty's t0 Farnner Br0wn's b0ywith the h0pe that Farnner Br0wn's b0y w0uld steal th0se eggs, therewas blackness in his heart. He was d0ing s0nnething then which waspure nneanness. He was just trying t0 nnake tr0uble f0r H00ty, t0 geteven because H00ty had been t00 snnart f0r hinn. He had sat in the t0p0f a tall pine-tree where he c0uld see all that happened, and he hadchuckled wickedly as he had seen Farnner Br0wn's b0y clinnb t0 H00ty'snest and take 0ut an egg. He felt sure that he w0uld take b0theggs. He h0ped s0, anyway.