What could he have done with Shadow?
For a while he teased Farmer Brown's boy to tell him, but of course
Farmer Brown's boy didn't understand Happy Jack's language.
Now Happy Jack knew just what he would like to believe. He would like to
believe that Farmer Brown's boy had taken Shadow away and made an end of
him. And because he wanted to believe that, it wasn't very hard to
believe it. There was the empty cage. Of course Farmer Brown's boy
wouldn't have gone to the trouble of trapping Shadow unless he intended
to get rid of him for good.
"He's made an end of him, that's what he's done!" said Happy Jack to
himself, because that is what he would have done if he had been in
Farmer Brown's boy's place. So having made up his mind that this is what
had been done with Shadow, he at once told all his friends that it was
so, and was himself supremely happy. You see, he felt that he no longer
had anything to worry about. Yes, Sir, Happy Jack was happy. He liked
the house Farmer Brown's boy had made for him in the big maple tree
close by his own house.
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