Therein consists the essence of my story . CHAPTER I HAPPY JACK DROPS A NUT Save a little every day , And for the future put away . Happy Jack . Happy Jack Squirrel sat on the tip of one of the highest branches of a big hickory tree . Happy Jack was up very early that morning . In fact , jolly , round , red Mr. Sun was still in his bed behind the Purple Hills when Happy Jack hopped briskly out of bed . He washed himself thoroughly and was ready for business by the time Mr. Sun began his climb up in the blue , blue sky . You see , Happy Jack had found that big hickory tree just loaded with nuts all ripe and ready to gather . He was quite sure that no one else had found that special tree , and he wanted to get all the nuts before any one else found out about them . So he was all ready and off he raced to the big tree just as soon as it was light enough to see . `` The nuts that grow in the hickory tree -- They 're all for me ! They 're all for me ! '' Happy Jack was humming that little song as he rested for a few minutes ` way up in the top of the tree and wondered if his storehouse would hold all these big , fat nuts . Just then he heard a great scolding a little way over in the Green Forest . Happy Jack stopped humming and listened . He knew that voice . It was his cousin 's voice -- the voice of Chatterer the Red Squirrel . Happy Jack frowned . `` I hope he wo n't come over this way , '' muttered Happy Jack . He does not love his cousin Chatterer anyway , and then there was the big tree full of hickory nuts !
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