`` I do n't know . I do n't know what to think , '' replied Happy Jack , soberly . `` Do you know , Tommy , I 've grown very fond of Farmer Brown 's boy . '' `` Of course . Dee , dee , dee , of course . Everybody who really knows him is fond of him . I 've said all along that he is the best friend we 've got , but no one seemed to believe me . I 'm glad you 've found it out for yourself . I tell you what , I 'll go up to his house and have another look around . '' And without waiting for a reply , Tommy was off as fast as his little wings could take him . `` I hope , I do hope , that nothing has happened to him , '' mumbled Happy Jack , as he pretended to hunt for buried nuts while he waited for Tommy Tit to come back , and by `` him '' he meant Farmer Brown 's boy . CHAPTER XVII TOMMY TIT BRINGS NEWS No one knows too much , but many know too little . Happy Jack . Happy Jack very plainly was not happy . His name was the only happy thing about him . He fussed about on the edge of the Green Forest . He just could n't keep still . When he thought anybody was looking , he pretended to hunt for some of the nuts he had buried in the fall , and dug holes down through the snow . But as soon as he thought that no one was watching , he would scamper up a tree where he could look over to Farmer Brown 's house and look and look . It was very clear that Happy Jack was watching for some one and that he was anxious , very anxious , indeed .
It was getting late in the afternoon , and soon the Black Shadows would begin XXXXX creep out from the Purple Hills , behind which jolly , round , red Mr. Sun would go to bed .
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