`` 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 . Yes , Sir , Happy Jack was spying . Spying , you know , is secretly watching other people and trying to find out what they are doing . It is n't a nice thing to do , not a bit nice . Happy Jack knew it , and all the time he was doing it , he was feeling very much ashamed of himself . But he said to himself that he just had to know where Striped Chipmunk 's storehouse was , because he just had to peep inside and find out if it held any of the big , fat hickory nuts that had disappeared from under the tall hickory tree while he was quarreling up in the top of it with his cousin , Chatterer the Red Squirrel . But spying on Striped Chipmunk is n't the easiest thing in the world . Happy Jack was finding it the hardest work he had ever undertaken .
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