premise: A little of that yellow corn would make a good breakfast .<br>When he reached the cornfield , Blacky perched on top of a shock of corn , for it already had been cut and put in shocks in readiness to be carted up to Farmer Brown 's barn .<br>For a few minutes he sat there silent and motionless , but all the time his sharp eyes were making sure that no enemy was hiding behind one of those brown shocks .
hypothesis: the corn had been cut and put in shocks in readiness to plant
reason: for it already had been cut and put in shocks in readiness to be carted up to Farmer Brown 's barn ( not planted)