Blacky the Crow
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CHAPTER XXIII: Blacky Calls Farmer Brown's Boy

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 Blacky awoke in the best of spirits. Late the afternoon before he had saved Dusky the Black Duck and his flock1 from a hunter with a terrible gun. He wasn't quite sure whether he was most happy in having saved those Ducks by warning them just in time, or in having spoiled the plans of that hunter. He hates a hunter with a terrible gun, does Blacky. For that matter, so do all the little people of the Green Forest and the Green Meadows2.
 
So Blacky started out for his breakfast in high spirits. After breakfast, he flew over to the Big River to see if Dusky the Black Duck was feeding in the rushes along the shore. Dusky wasn't, and Blacky guessed that he and his flock had been so frightened by that warning that they had kept away from there the night before.
 
“But they'll come back after a night or so,” muttered3 Blacky, as he alighted in the top of a tree, the same tree from which he had watched the hunter the afternoon before. “They'll come back, and so will that hunter. If he sees me around again, he'll try to shoot me. I've done all I can do. Anyway, Dusky ought to have sense enough to be suspicious4 of this place after that warning. Hello, who is that? I do believe it is Farmer Brown's boy. I wish he would come over here. If he should find out about that hunter, perhaps he would do something to drive him away. I'll see if I can call him over here.”
 
Blacky began to call in the way he does when he has discovered something and wants others to know about it. “Caw, caw, caaw, caaw, caw, caw, caaw!” screamed Blacky, as if greatly excited.
 
Now Farmer Brown's boy, having no work to do that morning, had started for a tramp5 over the Green Meadows, hoping to see some of his little friends in feathers and fur. He heard the excited cawing of Blacky and at once turned in that direction.
 
“That black rascal6 has found something over on the shore of the Big River,” said Farmer Brown's boy to himself. “I'll go over there to see what it is. There isn't much escapes the sharp eyes of that black busybody. He has led me to a lot of interesting things, one time and another. There he is on the top of that tree over by the Big River.”

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1 flock VgCzA     
n.羊群，一群，大量；vi.群集，聚集，成群
参考例句：
  • A flock of customers were waiting for the store to open.一群顾客在等候着商店开门。
  • A few sheep have been lost from the flock.羊群里少了几只羊。
2 meadows 671fca90ffa6da5feb8fd88b414c35a5     
草地，牧场， （河边的）低洼地( meadow的名词复数 )
参考例句：
  • The trail wends its way through leafy woodland and sunny meadows. 这条小径穿过葱郁的林区和洒满阳光的草地。
  • They have railed the meadows off from the new railway cutting. 他们已用栏杆把草地和新铁道的路堑隔离开来。
3 muttered 2764630c23cae6a012e2a09fc41abbd2     
轻声低语，咕哝地抱怨( mutter的过去式和过去分词 )
参考例句：
  • He muttered a curse at the other driver. 他低声咒骂另一位开车的人。
  • She turned away and muttered something unintelligible. 她转向一旁，嘴里不知咕哝些什么。
4 suspicious DrLw1     
adj.可疑的，容易引起怀疑的，猜疑的，疑心的
参考例句：
  • A man was hanging about the house in a suspicious manner.一个男人在房子周围可疑地荡来荡去。
  • He's so suspicious he would distrust his own mother.他这个人疑心太重，连自己的母亲也不相信。
5 tramp XJ8z1     
n.流浪者，步行，跋涉；v.步行，跋涉
参考例句：
  • She wants to go for a tramp in the country.她想去乡间远足。
  • A tramp came to the door and asked for food.一个流浪汉来到门前讨饭吃。
6 rascal mAIzd     
n.流氓；不诚实的人
参考例句：
  • If he had done otherwise,I should have thought him a rascal.如果他不这样做，我就认为他是个恶棍。
  • The rascal was frightened into holding his tongue.这坏蛋吓得不敢往下说了。
7 chuckled 8ce1383c838073977a08258a1f3e30f8     
轻声地笑( chuckle的过去式和过去分词 )
参考例句：
  • She chuckled at the memory. 想起这件事她就暗自发笑。
  • She chuckled softly to herself as she remembered his astonished look. 想起他那惊讶的表情，她就轻轻地暗自发笑。
8 baiting 8c91188d8d8c81bc698aafcc920f0e35     
下料
参考例句：
  • They had been baiting him for fun, but nobody wanted a fight. 他们确是有心“咬”他，撇些闲盘儿，可是并没预备打架。 来自汉英文学 - 骆驼祥子
  • He delighted in baiting his mother. 他喜欢逗母亲生气。

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