He felt sure that Shadow would come again , and he meant to give Shadow a surprise . He hunted until he found the little hole through which Shadow had got into the henhouse , and there he set a trap . `` I do n't like to do it , but I 've got to , '' said he . `` If he had been content with one , it would have been bad enough , but he killed three just from the love of killing , and it is high time that something be done to get rid of him . '' The very next morning Happy Jack saw Farmer Brown 's boy coming from the henhouse with something under his arm . He came straight over to the foot of the big maple tree and put the thing he was carrying down on the ground . He whistled to Happy Jack , and as Happy Jack came down to see what it was all about , Farmer Brown 's boy grinned . `` Here 's a friend of yours you probably will be glad to see , '' said he . At first , all Happy Jack could make out was a kind of wire box . Then he saw something white inside , and it moved . Very suspiciously Happy Jack came nearer . Then his heart gave a great leap . That wire box was a cage , and glaring between the wires with red , angry eyes was Shadow the Weasel ! He was a prisoner ! Right away Happy Jack was so excited that he acted as if he were crazy . He no longer had a single thing to be afraid of . Do you wonder that he was excited ? CHAPTER XXX A PRISONER WITHOUT FEAR A bad name is easy to get but hard to live down . Happy Jack . Shadow the Weasel was a prisoner .
He who always had been free to go and come XXXXX he pleased and to do as he pleased was now in a little narrow cage and quite helpless .
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