`` You 're a thief , so there ! '' `` I 'm not ! '' `` You are ! '' `` You 're a pig , Happy Jack ! You 're just a great big pig ! '' `` I 'm not a pig ! I found these nuts first and I tell you they 're mine ! '' shrieked Happy Jack , so angry that every time he spoke he jerked his tail . And all the time he was chasing round and round the trunk of the tree trying to prevent Chatterer getting up . Now Happy Jack is ever so much bigger than his cousin Chatterer but he is n't as spry . So in spite of him Chatterer got past , and like a little red flash was up in the top of the tree where the big , fat nuts were . But he did n't have time to pick even one , for after him came Happy Jack so angry that Chatterer knew that he would fare badly if Happy Jack should catch him . Round and round , over and across , this way and that way , in the top of the tall hickory tree raced Chatterer the Red Squirrel with his cousin , Happy Jack the Gray Squirrel , right at his heels , and calling him everything bad to be thought of . Yes , indeed it was truly dreadful , and Peter Rabbit , who happened along just then , put his hands over his ears so as not to hear such a dreadful quarrel . -LSB- Illustration : PETER RABBIT , WHO HAPPENED ALONG JUST THEN , PUT HIS HANDS OVER HIS EARS . -RSB- CHAPTER III STRIPED CHIPMUNK IS KEPT VERY BUSY I prefer big acorns but I never refuse little ones . They fit in between . Happy Jack . Striped Chipmunk was sitting just inside a hollow log , studying about how he could fill up his new storehouse for the winter . Striped Chipmunk is very thrifty .
He likes to play , and he is one of the merriest XXXXX all the little people who live on the Green Meadows or in the Green Forest .
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