And this worried him. Yes, Sir, it worried Happy Jack. He hadn't
seen or heard of Shadow for a long time, but he had a feeling that he
was likely to turn up almost any time, especially now that everything
was covered with snow and ice, and food was scarce and hard to get. He
sometimes actually wished that he wasn't as fat as he was. Then he would
be less tempting to his hungry neighbors.
But no good comes of worrying. No, Sir, not a bit of good comes of
worrying, and Happy Jack knows it.
"All I can do is to watch out and not be careless," said he, and dropped
the shell of a nut on the head of Reddy Fox, who happened to be passing
under the tree in which Happy Jack was sitting. Reddy looked up and
showed his teeth angrily. Happy Jack laughed and scampered away through
the tree-tops to another part of the Green Forest where he had some very
secret stores of nuts.
He was gone most of the day, and when he started back home he was in the
best of spirits, for his stores had not been found by any one else. He
was in such good spirits that for once he quite forgot Shadow the
Weasel.
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