But she certainly gave all the other crows the impression that there was nothing wrong about _her_ nest, and that they had better go and look after their own.

Thereupon they all said sarcastic things to their fellow citizen and left him indignantly.

He, poor fellow, found it impossible to explain or justify himself, because his mate was sitting on the eggs; so he flew off in a huff to try and find a sparrow's nest to rob.

When he came back he had taken pains to forget just how many eggs there had ever been in the nest.
"Oh, yes, I know there were still three.

Well, three or four days later a boy came up from the farmhouse and climbed the pine tree, He was not the kind of a boy that robs birds' nests, but he was making a collection.