a little practice you'll be able to do the trick very well. And Farmer
Green will certainly be pleased. Now, just try it again!"

But Freddie Firefly could not forget how terrible Benjamin had looked a
few moments before. And he began to suspect that Benjamin Bat was
playing a trick of his own.

"It seems to me," said Freddie, "that you are a little too anxious about
Farmer Green."

"Oh! no, indeed!" Benjamin Bat declared. "Farmer Green is a fine man.
He's a great friend of mine. He furnishes me a whole tree near the
swamp, in which I sleep every day. If you passed that way any time
between dawn and sunset you could see me hanging by my heels from one of
the branches."

"Just where is your tree?" Freddie Firefly inquired.

Having no idea that Freddie could do him the slightest harm, Benjamin
Bat explained that his special, favorite tree was a great cedar, which
stood close to the old bridge that crossed Black Creek, at the lower end
of the swamp.

"I know where that is; and I'll go over there to-morrow and take a look
at you," Freddie Firefly remarked.

"Do!" said Benjamin Bat.

"And I'll bring Solomon Owl with me," Freddie added. "For I know he'd
like to see you, too."