What was all that noise over in the Green Forest ? Striped Chipmunk peeped out of the hollow log . Over in the top of a tall hickory tree a terrible fuss was going on . Striped Chipmunk listened . He heard angry voices , such angry voices ! They were the voices of his big cousins , Happy Jack the Gray Squirrel and Chatterer the Red Squirrel . `` Dear me ! Dear me ! How those two do quarrel ! I must go over and see what it is all about , '' thought Striped Chipmunk . So , with a flirt of his funny , little tail , he scampered out of the hollow log and over to the tall hickory tree . He knew all about that tree . Many , many times he had looked up at the big fat nuts in the top of it , watching them grow bigger and fatter , and hoping that when they grew ripe , Old Mother West Wind would find time to shake them down to him . You know Striped Chipmunk is not much of a climber , and so he can not go up and pick the nuts as do his big cousins , Happy Jack and Chatterer . When he reached the tall hickory tree , what do you think was happening ? Why , those big , fat nuts were rattling down to the ground on every side , just as if Old Mother West Wind was shaking the tree as hard as she could . But Old Mother West Wind was n't there at all . No , Sir , there was n't even one of the Merry Little Breezes up in the tree-tops . The big fat nuts were rattling down just on account of the dreadful quarrel of Striped Chipmunk 's two foolish cousins , Happy Jack and Chatterer . It was all because Happy Jack was greedy .
Chatterer had climbed the tree , and now Happy Jack , who is bigger but not so spry , was chasing Chatterer round and round and over the tree-top , and both were so angry that they did n't once notice XXXXX they were knocking down the very nuts over which they were quarreling .
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