It was almost like a game. It was great fun to scold at
her and let her get very near him and then, just as she was sure that
she was going to catch him, to jump out of her reach. After a while she
was content to sit at the foot of the tree and just glare at him.
Happy Jack had only one worry now, and this didn't trouble him a great
deal. It was possible that Shadow the Weasel might take it into his head
to try to surprise him some night. Happy Jack knew that by this time
Shadow must know where he was living, for of course Sammy Jay had found
out, and Sammy is one of those who tells all he knows. Still, being so
close to Farmer Brown's boy gave Happy Jack a very comfortable feeling.
Now all this time Farmer Brown's boy had not forgotten Shadow the Weasel
and how he had driven Happy Jack out of the Green Forest, and he had
wondered a great many times if it wouldn't be a kindness to the other
little people if he should trap Shadow and put him out of the way. But
you know he had given up trapping, and somehow he didn't like to think
of setting a trap, even for such a mischief-maker as Shadow.
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