and shouted and called him “thief,” and 
*“murderer,’”’ and I know not what else, until the 
poor owl, who wanted nothing so much as to be 
let alone and allowed to sleep, finally had to fly 
away, and it so happened that he flew to the 
barn. | 
The jays followed shouting for everybody to 
look and see how they were driving the rogue. 
~The owl flew right to the flickers’ hole and went 
in. Robin Hood, who was always the boldest 
of the band, looked through the hole, and then 
he went in, too. But within a minute he was 
very sorry. When a jay gets into a room it has 
a way of flying about close to the ceiling. Robin 
Hood did this for a short time. However, it was 
so dark in there and the eyes of the owl, who was 
sitting on a hay rack, looked so large and bright 
that he thought it best to get out again. But 
alas and alack, the hole was just under the edge 
of a large piece of timber and, being above, Robin 
Hood could not see it. So he flew from joist to 
joist of the barn and screamed “jay, jay,” as 
loudly as he could. He was calling for help with 
all his might, for he was terribly frightened. 
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