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 as he pleased and to do as he pleased was now in a little narrow cage and quite helpless . For once he had been careless , and this was the result . Farmer Brown 's boy had caught him in a trap . Of course , he should have known better than to have visited the henhouse a second time after killing three of the best pullets there . He should have known that Farmer Brown 's boy would be sure to do something about it .
The truth is , he had yielded XXXXX temptation when common sense had warned him not to .
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