Not a nut could they see . Then they stared at each other , and gradually a foolish , a very foolish look crept over each face . `` Where -- where do you suppose they have gone ? '' asked Happy Jack in a queer-sounding voice . Just then they heard some one laughing fit to kill himself . It was Peter Rabbit . `` Did you take our hickory nuts ? '' they both shouted angrily . `` No , '' replied Peter , `` no , I did n't take them , though they were not yours , anyway ! '' And then he went off into another fit of laughter , for Peter had seen Striped Chipmunk very hard at work taking away those very nuts while his two big cousins had been quarreling in the tree-top . CHAPTER V HAPPY JACK SUSPECTS STRIPED CHIPMUNK Thrift is one test of true loyalty to your country . Happy Jack . Happy Jack did n't look happy a bit . Indeed , Happy Jack looked very unhappy . You see , he looked just as he felt . He had set his heart on having all the big , fat nuts that he had found in the top of that tall hickory tree , and now , instead of having all of them , he had n't any of them . Worse still , he knew right down in his heart that it was his own fault . He had been too greedy . But what had become of those nuts ? Happy Jack was studying about this as he sat with his back against a big chestnut tree .
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