With a violent effort, she rose, gained the next tree, alighted, panting, beside her parents and looked at them with a superior air, as if she thought that they could never have accomplished such a thing at her age.

That was perhaps true, of course, but it was not for her to think so." "Huh! I should think not, indeed!" agreed the Babe severely.
"Well," continued Uncle Andy, now quite absorbed in his narrative, "the other youngster, not to be outdone, went hopping up in great excitement from branch to branch, till he was some ten feet above the rest of the family.

Then, launching himself boldly, he went fluttering down to them with no difficulty at all.

He was less impetuous and more sagacious than his sister.
"After this the parents continued to feed their independent offspring for a number of days, just because they had been accustomed to feed their nestling for a certain length of time, till at last the youngsters started off to forage on their own account, and the family, as a family, broke up.

From habit, however, or from good will, the youngsters kept coming back to roost on the branches beside the nest, and remained on the most friendly, though easy-going, relations with their father and mother.
"In every crow flock, large or small, there seems to be some kind of discipline, some kind of obedience to the wise old leaders of the flock.