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big branch over there. He walked right under me and never saw 

 me. I should think he would have seen you, Mrs. Chipmunk, 

 with all the little black stripes on your back." "But," Mrs. 

 .Chipmunk said, "I sat behind that big rock over there and the boy 

 didn't see me either." 



Naughty boy! None of my little boys in this room are ever 

 going to frighten Mr. Squirrel and Mrs. Chipmunk so much, I 

 know. 



Mrs. Chipmunk ran off with her cheeks full of goodies behind 

 the rocks while Mr. Squirrel rubbing his face watched her dis- 

 appear. 



"My!" thought Mr. Squirrel, "I must get my breakfast. I 

 wonder if Mrs. Chipmunk will make a little pile of those nuts 

 outside of her home before she takes them all inside. Ha! Ha! 

 I'll just go and see," he thought. With a few jumps he was 

 down from the tree and following Mrs. Chipmunk. Sure enough, 

 there was the little pile outside her home, all ready to take inside. 

 Mr. Squirrel hid behind the rock and watched Mrs. Chipmunk 

 take the nuts out of the little baskets in her cheeks, put them down 

 and the run off for some more. Bad Mr. Squirrel ran to the pile 

 and, making several trips, stole enough for his and his brother's 

 breakfast. He doesn't have baskets like Mrs. Chipmunk to 

 carry his food in and so he uses his teeth. Wouldn't his mother 

 have spanked him if she knew? But they tasted as good to him 

 as candy does to us when Mother says, "No! No!" 



When Mrs. Chipmunk came back and saw her pile of nuts 

 nearly gone, she chattered and scolded for a long time, but Mr. 

 Squirrel was afraid of what she would say and had run far away. 



We didn't see what Mrs. Chipmunk did to bad Mr. Squirrel 

 but I guess he never stole from her pile of nuts again. 



Begin 



"Persons hesitate, fearing that they will make a mistake. A teacher 



asked me the other day where he should begin with nature work. He had 



been considering the matter for two or three years, he said, but did not 



know how to undertake it. I replied, Begin! Head end, tail end, in the 



middle — but Begin! There are two essential epochs in any enterprise — to 



begin, and to get done." 



L. H. Bailey. 



