Striped Chipmunk scrambled up on the old stump , looked this way and that way , as if to be sure that no one was watching him , then with a flirt of his funny little tail he darted into a little round doorway . He was gone a long time , but by and by out he popped , looked this way and that way , and then scampered off in the direction from which he had come . Happy Jack did n't try to follow him . He waited until he was sure that Striped Chipmunk was out of sight and hearing , and then he walked over to the old stump . `` It 's his storehouse fast enough , '' said Happy Jack . CHAPTER VIII HAPPY JACK TURNS BURGLAR As trees from little acorns , so Great sums from little pennies grow . Happy Jack . Happy Jack Squirrel stood in front of the old stump into which he had seen Striped Chipmunk go with the pockets in his cheeks full of acorns , and out of which he had come with the pockets of his cheeks quite empty . `` It certainly is his storehouse , and now I 'll find out if he is the one who got all those big , fat hickory nuts , '' muttered Happy Jack . First he looked this way , and then he looked that way , to be sure that no one saw him , for what he was planning to do was a very dreadful thing , and he knew it . Happy Jack was going to turn burglar . A burglar , you know , is one who breaks into another 's house or barn to steal , which is a very , very dreadful thing to do . Yet this is just what Happy Jack Squirrel was planning to do . He was going to get into that old stump , and if those big , fat hickory nuts were there , as he was sure they were , he was going to take them . He tried very hard to make himself believe that it would n't be stealing . He had watched those nuts in the top of the tall hickory tree so long that he had grown to think that they belonged to him . Of course they did n't , but he had made himself think they did . Happy Jack walked all around the old stump , and then he climbed up on top of it . There was only one doorway , and that was the little round hole through which Striped Chipmunk had entered and then come out . It was too small for Happy Jack to even get his head through , though his cousin , Chatterer the Red Squirrel , who is much smaller , could have slipped in easily .
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Chatterer Chipmunk First Jack Squirrel burglar head sight stealing stump