" He
was talking to his cousin, Jasper Jay.
"I can tell you," said Jasper. "That Rabbit boy--the one they call
Jimmy--has a shoe-store. You know he's always trying something new. He
has had a barber's shop; and he's been a tooth-puller. And now he has
opened a shoe-store over in the meadow."
"I'm glad to know it," Mr. Crow replied, "though I must say I wish it was
somebody else. There's something about that Rabbit boy that I don't like.
Maybe it's the way he wags his ears and wriggles his nose. And he's
always jumping."
"He's a bright young fellow," said Jasper Jay.
Old Mr. Crow coughed.
"A little too bright, sometimes," he ventured. "But he'll have to be a
good deal brighter to play any of his tricks on me."
"You think you're enough for him?" Jasper inquired.
"Think?" cried Mr. Crow. "I _know_ I am. And though I hate to get any
shoes in his shop, I'm afraid I shall have to just this once."
Later that day Mr. Crow went to the shoe-shop in the meadow. And Jimmy
Rabbit was delighted to see him.
"Come right in!" he invited Mr. Crow. "I see you need some new shoes. And
you've made no mistake in coming here for them."
"I hope not," Mr. Crow responded gruffly.
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