`` Have you begun to fill your storehouse for winter yet ? '' inquired Happy Jack . `` Of course I have . I do n't mean to let Jack Frost catch me with an empty storehouse , '' replied Striped Chipmunk . `` When leaves turn yellow , brown , and red , And nuts come pitter , patter down ; When days are short and swiftly sped , And Autumn wears her colored gown , I 'm up before old Mr. Sun His nightcap has a chance to doff , And have my day 's work well begun When others kick their bedclothes off . '' `` What are you filling your storehouse with ? '' asked Happy Jack , trying not to show too much interest . `` Corn , nice ripe yellow corn , and seeds and acorns and chestnuts , '' answered Striped Chipmunk . `` And now I 'm looking for some big , fat hickory nuts , '' he added , and his bright eyes twinkled . `` Have you seen any , Happy Jack ? '' Happy Jack said that he had n't seen any , and Striped Chipmunk remarked that he could n't waste any more time talking , and scurried away . Happy Jack watched him go , a puzzled little frown puckering up his brows . `` I believe he knows something about those nuts . I think I 'll follow him and have a peep into his storehouse , '' he muttered . CHAPTER VI HAPPY JACK SPIES ON STRIPED CHIPMUNK It 's more important to mind your own affairs than to know what your neighbors are doing , but not nearly so interesting . Happy Jack . Striped Chipmunk was whisking about among the brown-and-yellow leaves that covered the ground on the edge of the Green Forest . He is such a little fellow that he looked almost like a brown leaf himself , and when one of Old Mother West Wind 's Merry Little Breezes whirled the brown leaves in a mad little dance around him , it was the hardest work in the world to see Striped Chipmunk at all . Anyway , Happy Jack Squirrel found it so . You see , Happy Jack was spying on Striped Chipmunk .
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