"Where is he now?" she inquired.
"He's eating raspberries in the berry patch," Jolly told her. "When I talked with him I said——"
"You said!" Mrs. Robin interrupted. "You said! The question is, what did you do? If you didn't fight him you must go back and do your duty."
There was nothing he could do except obey her. So, feeling very desperate, Jolly Robin hurried back to the place where the raspberry bushes grew by the fence. He gave three loud chirps, to encourage himself. And then he darted down and sailed very close to Reddy Woodpecker's head. He didn't pause an instant to see what effect this action had on Reddy Woodpecker, but flew away as quickly as he could. "I guess I scared him that time," he muttered.
Meanwhile Reddy Woodpecker stared after him and watched him as he disappeared among the apple tree tops.
"Well, what do you think of that?" he said to himself with a grin.
XI
A VERY SHORT FIGHT
Jolly Robin told his wife how he swooped down over Reddy Woodpecker's head. And he assured her that he had no doubt that Mr. Woodpecker would not be seen among the raspberry bushes again.
Jolly had felt quite pleased with himself. His threatened attack on Reddy had seemed to him to be very daring. So he was disappointed when his wife did not praise him.