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and the cautious leader was rather sus- 

 picious. 



Then the farmer drove a stake about 

 six feet high at one corner of the field, 

 and nailed another shorter stake across it, 

 about four feet from the ground. 



Next he pulled some straw, and some 

 black looking things from a bag, and al- 

 most before the crow had guessed what the 

 farmer was doing, the cross-like stake had 

 been changed into a queer-looking man, 

 but his insides were nothing but straw. 



When the farmer had stuffed out the 

 man good and round, and had put a hat 

 on his head, he looked quite like another 

 farmer, whom the first farmer might 

 have got to stand in the corner of the 

 field, and keep the crows away. But the 

 gentleman in black knew it was all a 

 trick, for he had seen the man made. 



When the farmer had gone home^ the 



