Now Happy Jack is ever so much bigger than his cousin Chatterer but he is n't as spry . So in spite of him Chatterer got past , and like a little red flash was up in the top of the tree where the big , fat nuts were . But he did n't have time to pick even one , for after him came Happy Jack so angry that Chatterer knew that he would fare badly if Happy Jack should catch him . Round and round , over and across , this way and that way , in the top of the tall hickory tree raced Chatterer the Red Squirrel with his cousin , Happy Jack the Gray Squirrel , right at his heels , and calling him everything bad to be thought of . Yes , indeed it was truly dreadful , and Peter Rabbit , who happened along just then , put his hands over his ears so as not to hear such a dreadful quarrel . -LSB- Illustration : PETER RABBIT , WHO HAPPENED ALONG JUST THEN , PUT HIS HANDS OVER HIS EARS . -RSB- CHAPTER III STRIPED CHIPMUNK IS KEPT VERY BUSY I prefer big acorns but I never refuse little ones . They fit in between . Happy Jack . Striped Chipmunk was sitting just inside a hollow log , studying about how he could fill up his new storehouse for the winter . Striped Chipmunk is very thrifty . He likes to play , and he is one of the merriest of all the little people who live on the Green Meadows or in the Green Forest . He lives right on the edge of both and knows everybody , and everybody knows him . Almost every morning the Merry Little Breezes of Old Mother West Wind hurry over to have a frolic with him the very first thing . But though he dearly loves to play , he never lets play interfere with work . Whatever he does , be it play or work , he does with all his might . `` I love the sun ; I love the rain ; I love to work ; I love to play . Whatever it may bring to me I love each minute of each day . '' So said Striped Chipmunk , as he sat in the hollow log and studied how he could fill that splendid big new storehouse . Pretty soon he pricked up his funny little ears .
What was all that noise over in the Green XXXXX ?
CHIPMUNK Chatterer Forest Meadows Mother Rabbit Red Squirrel first morning