"
Then he laughed again as he thought how Striped Chipmunk must have
enjoyed seeing him pulled out of Chatterer's storehouse by the tail.
"What's the joke?" asked Bobby Coon, who happened along just then.
"I've just learned a lesson," replied Happy Jack.
"What is it?" asked Bobby.
Happy Jack grinned as he answered:
"I've found that greed will never, never pay.
It makes one cross and ugly, and it drives one's friends away.
And being always selfish and always wanting more,
One's very apt to lose the things that one has had before."
"Pooh!" said Bobby Coon. "Have you just found that out? I learned that a
long time ago."
CHAPTER XIII
HAPPY JACK GETS A WARNING
It matters not how smart you are,
So be it you are heedless too.
It isn't what you know that counts
So much as what it is to you.
_Happy Jack._
A fat Gray Squirrel is very tempting to a number of people in the Green
Forest, particularly in winter, when getting a living is hard work.
Almost every day Reddy and Granny Fox stole softly through that part of
the Green Forest where Happy Jack Squirrel lived, hoping to surprise and
catch him on the ground.
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