StNicholas [serial] . ere he stood look-ing at himself in the water. He held his headon one side and fixed his whiskers again. Soon he came scampering back to the littlegirl. If you spend so much time fixing your the nuts he has gathered. The tree is hollowall the way down from that knot-hole near thetop, and he has it nearly filled. But come, now,let me show you where to go. With a run and a spring the chipmunklanded on the little girls shoulder. Go right ahead ! he said. Josey walked through the woods and throughthe woods, and the chipmunk showed her wherethe squirrels built their nests in h
StNicholas [serial] . ere he stood look-ing at himself in the water. He held his headon one side and fixed his whiskers again. Soon he came scampering back to the littlegirl. If you spend so much time fixing your the nuts he has gathered. The tree is hollowall the way down from that knot-hole near thetop, and he has it nearly filled. But come, now,let me show you where to go. With a run and a spring the chipmunklanded on the little girls shoulder. Go right ahead ! he said. Josey walked through the woods and throughthe woods, and the chipmunk showed her wherethe squirrels built their nests in hollow trees,with small knot-holes for doors. Beautiful,soft, fluffy, downy nests they were, filled withbaby squirrels that kept calling for their mamasall the time, and had their papas running likemad getting more and more nuts for them. Why do they have such small doors, andwhy do they go so high to make their nests ? asked Josey. They have small doors to keep the big birdsaway, and they build high so that the snakes. THE mayor was sitting on the roof of his house, fanning himself with a leaf. whiskers, I dont see how you can work, said may not visit them, answered the chipmunk. Josey. But come along, or you will be late for our I dont, said the chipmunk. My uncle cousins the prairie-dogs. attends to all that. He is a miser. His house Then they went on and on till they came to is in that big tree over there, and if we lived the end of the woods, and there was a place all ever so long we should not be able to eat all covered with grass, and in the middle of it the 899-] JOSEY AND THE CHIPMUNK. *7 prairie-dogs lived. These were like squirrels,but they lived in holes in the ground. Theywere all very busy. Some were eating, somewere talking, and some were working whenthey saw Josey. Bow-wow! said one of them, and in aninstant they were all gone. Josey ran to the place where they had been,but not one could be seen; only a lot of holesin the ground. Keep very still! said the chipmun
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