Mrs. Ryder Rabbit in "Hooty The Owl Changes His Hunting Grounds"

A full stomach makes a pleasant Day;
An empty stomach turns the whole world gray.
Ryder Rabbit.

Hooty the owl sat on the tip-top of a tall dead tree in the Green Forest while the Black Shadows crept swiftly among the trees. He was talking to himself. It wouldn't have done for him to have spoken aloud what he was saying to himself, for then the little people in feathers and fur on whom he likes to make his dinner would have heard him and known just where he was.