"Oh! you are the one! Very well!"
Loony John seized her and put her in the stew-pan alive. Then he began to think, and he remembered that the eggs were not hatched and that the nest was without a hen.
"My mother did not think of that," said Loony John, and at once he went and sat on the nest in the hen's place.
When his mother returned home she called for her son.
"John! Oh, John! where are you?"
"Here, in a corner of the hen-house!"
"Where?" exclaimed the mother. "I do not see you."
"Cluck—cluck—cluck!" said Loony John.
"Why don't you answer?" cried his mother.