"I never saw that happen
before. It looks to me as if the train was pretty angry because I beat
it. And if that's the case, I'm coming back here to-morrow at the same
hour and race the train again."
You can see just from that that Mr. Crow was something of a tease. All
his life he had teased his neighbors. And now he felt more important than
ever, because he thought he had found a way to tease a railroad train.
XIII
THE GAME OF CHECKERS
Mr. Crow told all his neighbors that he had made the train angry with
him. And he invited everyone to come down to the village with him the
following day, to enjoy the sport.
"I'm going to race the train again," Mr. Crow explained. "And I shall fly
right in front of it, too--just as I did to-day. You'll see what a fuss
it will make. And if you don't say it's a good joke, I'll never wear a
checkered red coat again."
The next day Jasper Jay invited Mr. Crow to take part in a game of
checkers. Whenever anybody in the neighborhood wanted to play checkers,
he had to ask Mr. Crow, on account of having to use his checkered red
coat for the board.
Mr. Crow accepted the invitation.
"But I shall have to stop at exactly sixteen minutes past two," he said.
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