Very few people can be all puffed up with pride without showing it . Happy Jack Squirrel could n't . Just to have looked at him you would have known that he was feeling very , very good about something . When he thought no one was looking , he would actually strut . And it was all because he considered himself a very bold fellow . That was a new feeling for Happy Jack . He knew that all his neighbors considered him rather timid , and many a time he had envied , actually envied Jimmy Skunk and Reddy Fox and Unc ' Billy Possum and even Sammy Jay because they did such bold things and had dared to visit Farmer Brown 's dooryard and henhouse in spite of Bowser the Hound . But now he felt that he dared do a thing that not one of them dared do . He dared go right into Farmer Brown 's house and make himself quite at home in the room of Farmer Brown 's boy . He felt that he was a tremendously brave fellow . You see , he quite forgot one thing . He forgot that he had found out that love destroys fear , and that though it might look to others like a very bold thing to walk right into Farmer Brown 's house , it really was n't bold at all , because all the time he knew that no harm would come to him . It is never brave to do a thing that you are not afraid to do . It had been brave of him to go in at that open window the first time , because then he had been afraid , but now he was n't afraid , and so it was no longer either brave or bold of him . Tommy Tit the Chickadee knew all this , and he used to chuckle to himself as he saw how proud of himself Happy Jack was , but he said nothing to any one about it . Of course , it was n't long before others began to notice Happy Jack 's pride . One of the first was Sammy Jay . There is very little that escapes Sammy Jay 's sharp eyes . Silently stealing through the Green Forest early one morning , he surprised Happy Jack strutting . `` Huh , '' said he , `` what are you feeling so big about ? ''
Like a flash the thought came to Happy XXXXX that here was a chance to show what a bold fellow he had become .
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