Sitting in it was a man with a terrible
gun, very intently watching Mrs. Quack out in the middle of the
Big River. Sammy was so startled that before he thought he opened
his mouth and screamed "Thief! thief! thief!" at the top of his
lungs, and flew away with all his might. Mrs. Quack heard his scream
and understood just what it meant.
A little later Blacky the Crow discovered another hunter hiding
behind the bushes on his side. "Caw! caw! caw!" shouted Blacky,
flying out over the water far enough to be safe from that terrible
gun he could see.
"Quack! quack!" replied Mrs. Quack, which meant that she understood.
And so the hunt went on without a sign of poor Mr. Quack.
XVI
SAMMY JAY SEES SOMETHING GREEN
For all their peeking and peering among the broken-down rushes and
under the bushes along the banks of the Big River, and no sharper
eyes ever peeked and peered, Sammy Jay and Blacky the Crow had
found no sign of the missing Mr. Quack.
"I guess Mrs. Quack was right and that Mr. Quack was killed when
he was shot," muttered Sammy to himself. "Probably one of those
hunters had him for dinner long ago. Hello! There's another hunter
up where the Laughing Brook joins the Big River! I guess I won't
take any chances. I'd like to find Mr. Quack, but Sammy Jay is a
lot more important to me than Mr. Quack, and that fellow just might
happen to take it into his head to shoot at me."
So Sammy silently flew around back of the hunter and stopped in a
tree where he could watch all that the man did.
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