CHAPTER X STRIPED CHIPMUNK 'S HAPPY THOUGHT Waste seems to me a dreadful sin ; It works to lose and not to win . Thrift will win ; it can not lose . Between them 't is for you to choose . Happy Jack . Striped Chipmunk sat on a mossy old log , laughing until his sides ached . `` Ha , ha , ha ! Ho , ho , ho ! Oh , dear ! Oh , dear ! Ho , ho , ho , ho , ho ! '' laughed Striped Chipmunk , holding his sides . Over in the Green Forest he could still hear Chatterer the Red Squirrel crying `` Thief ! Robber ! '' as he chased his big cousin , Happy Jack , and every time he heard it , Striped Chipmunk laughed harder . You see , Striped Chipmunk had known all the time that Happy Jack was spying on him , and he had had no end of fun fooling Happy Jack by suddenly disappearing and then bobbing into view . He had known that Happy Jack was following him so as to find out where his storehouse was . Then Striped Chipmunk had remembered the storehouse of Chatterer the Red Squirrel . He had filled the pockets in his cheeks with acorns and gone straight over to Chatterer 's storehouse and put them inside , knowing that Happy Jack would follow him and would think that that was his storehouse . And that is just what happened . Then Striped Chipmunk had hidden himself where he could see all that happened .
He had seen Happy Jack look all around , to make sure that no one was near , and then tear open the little round doorway XXXXX Chatterer 's storehouse until it was big enough for him to squeeze through .
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