But the two black imps of Pine-Top were apparently, for the time at least, exempted from it.

They did about as they liked and were a nuisance to everybody but their two selves, whom they admired immensely.

Being too young for the old crows to take seriously, their pranks were tolerated, or they would soon have been pecked and beaten into better manners.

Too big and too grown-up for the young crows--whom they visited in their nests and tormented till driven away by the indignant parents--they had no associates but each other.

So they followed their own whims; and the flock was philosophically indifferent as to what might happen to them.
"You must not think, however, that they did not learn anything, these two.