`` I hope , I do hope , that nothing has happened to him , '' mumbled Happy Jack , as he pretended to hunt for buried nuts while he waited for Tommy Tit to come back , and by `` him '' he meant Farmer Brown 's boy . CHAPTER XVII TOMMY TIT BRINGS NEWS No one knows too much , but many know too little . Happy Jack . Happy Jack very plainly was not happy . His name was the only happy thing about him . He fussed about on the edge of the Green Forest . He just could n't keep still . When he thought anybody was looking , he pretended to hunt for some of the nuts he had buried in the fall , and dug holes down through the snow . But as soon as he thought that no one was watching , he would scamper up a tree where he could look over to Farmer Brown 's house and look and look . It was very clear that Happy Jack was watching for some one and that he was anxious , very anxious , indeed . It was getting late in the afternoon , and soon the Black Shadows would begin to creep out from the Purple Hills , behind which jolly , round , red Mr. Sun would go to bed . It would be bedtime for Happy Jack then , for you know he goes to bed very early , just as soon as it begins to get dark . The later it got , the more anxious and uneasy Happy Jack grew . He had just made up his mind that in a few minutes he would have to give up and go to bed when there was a flit of tiny wings , and Tommy Tit the Chickadee dropped into the tree beside him . `` Did you find out anything ? '' asked Happy Jack eagerly , before Tommy had a chance to say a word . -LSB- Illustration : `` DID YOU FIND OUT ANYTHING ? '' ASKED HAPPY JACK EAGERLY . -RSB- Tommy nodded . `` He 's there ! ''
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