"Thanksgiving comes but once a year,
And when it comes it brings good cheer,"
said Striped Chipmunk to himself as he watched his guests depart.
CHAPTER XII
HAPPY JACK DOES SOME THINKING
To call another a thief doesn't make him one.
_Happy Jack._
Happy Jack sat up in a chestnut tree, and his face was very sober. The
fact is, Happy Jack was doing some very hard thinking. This is so very
unusual for him that Sammy Jay stopped to ask if he was sick. You see he
is naturally a happy-go-lucky little scamp, and that is one reason that
he is called Happy Jack. But this morning he was thinking and thinking
hard, so hard, in fact, that he almost lost his temper when Sammy Jay
interrupted his thoughts with such a foolish question.
What was he thinking about? Can you not guess? Why, he was thinking
about those big, fat hickory nuts that Striped Chipmunk had had for his
Thanksgiving dinner, and how Striped Chipmunk had given him some of them
to bring home. He was very sure that they were the very same nuts that
he had watched grow big and fat in the top of the tall hickory tree and
then had knocked down while chasing his cousin, Chatterer.
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