CHAPTER XV: Blacky Does A Little Looking About

Do not take the word of others That things are or are not so When there is a chance that you may Find out for yourself and know. --Blacky the Crow.

Blacky the Crow is a shrewd fellow. He is one of the smartest and shrewdest of all the little people in the Green Forest and on the Green Meadows. Everybody knows it. And because of this, all his neighbors have a great deal of respect for him, despite his mischievous ways.

Of course, Blacky had noticed that Johnny Chuck had dug his house deeper than usual and had stuffed himself until he was fatter than ever before. He had noticed that Jerry Muskrat was making the walls of his house thicker than in other years, and that Paddy the Beaver was doing the same thing to his house. You know there is very little that escapes the sharp eyes of Blacky the Crow.

He had guessed what these things meant. "They think we are going to have a long, hard, cold winter," muttered Blacky to himself. "Perhaps they know, but I want to see some signs of it for myself. They may be only guessing. Anybody can do that, and one guess is as good as another."

Then he found Mr. and Mrs. Quack, the Mallard Ducks, and their children in the pond of Paddy the Beaver and remembered that they never had come down from their home in the Far North as early in the fall as this. Mrs. Quack explained that Jack Frost had already started south, and so they had started earlier to keep well ahead of him.

Answer the following questions:
1. Where does the bird live?
2. Is this story true?
3. What were the names of the fowl?
4. Did they have kids?
5. who dug his home?
6. Was he skinny?
7. who had good eyesight?
8. who lived on the pond?
9. Did the birds fly to Canada?
10. Where did they fly?
11. who made thick barriers to the outside?
12. Who did the same?
13. Who did folks admire?
14. how many animals are in the story?
15. what was coming?
16. who talked to himself?

Numbered answers:
1. Green Forest and on the Green Meadows
2. no
3. Mr. and Mrs. Quack
4. yes
5. Johnny Chuck
6. no
7. Blacky the Crow.
8. Paddy the Beaver
9. no
10. south
11. Jerry Muskrat
12. Paddy the Beaver
13. Black Crow.
14. Six
15. long, hard, cold winter
16. Blacky