Chapter 15 - Page 2

and so wise, and so solemn, that Frisky thought that anything he said must be true.

"I'm going past Farmer Green's house right now," Mr. Crow told Frisky. "I have a little matter to attend to over in the cornfield. And if you want to come along with me I don't mind stopping to show you where the butternuts are. But of course if you're afraid--" Mr. Crow stopped to cough. He buttoned his coat closer around his throat. And then he looked sideways at Frisky Squirrel.

"Afraid!" Frisky exclaimed. "I'm not afraid at all."

"Good!" said Mr. Crow. "Now, then, young fellow! You skip along over to Farmer Green's and I'll be waiting for you down the road a bit."

Old Mr. Crow flapped himself away then. And Frisky Squirrel hurried off in a straight line for the farmhouse.