There ain't a farmer 'round here that hain't been green with envy, ever since I caught the critter.

An' now ter have you come along an' with one flip o'yer knife spile it all, I--Well, it jest makes me mad, clean through! That's all." "You mean, you tied him there to frighten away the other crows ?" "Sure! There ain't nothin' like it." "Oh, I'm so sorry!" "Well, you'd better be.

But that won't bring back my crow!" David's face brightened.
"No, that's so, isn't it?
I'm glad of that.

I was thinking of the crows, you see.

I'm so sorry for them! Only think how we'd hate to be tied like that--" But Perry Larson, with a stare and an indignant snort, had got to his feet, and was rapidly walking toward the house.
Very plainly, that evening, David was in disgrace, and it took all of Mrs.Holly's tact and patience, and some private pleading, to keep a general explosion from wrecking all chances of his staying longer at the farmhouse.