HAPPY JACK

CONTENTS


I. HAPPY JACK DROPS A NUT

II. THE QUARREL

III. STRIPED CHIPMUNK Is KEPT VERY BUSY

IV. HAPPY JACK AND CHATTERER FEEL FOOLISH

V. HAPPY JACK SUSPECTS STRIPED CHIPMUNK

VI. HAPPY JACK SPIES ON STRIPED CHIPMUNK

VII. STRIPED CHIPMUNK HAS FUN WITH HAPPY JACK

VIII. HAPPY JACK TURNS BURGLAR

IX. HAPPY JACK SQUIRREL'S SAD MISTAKE

X. STRIPED CHIPMUNK'S HAPPY THOUGHT

XI. STRIPED CHIPMUNK'S THANKSGIVING DINNER

XII. HAPPY JACK DOES SOME THINKING

XIII. HAPPY JACK GETS A WARNING

XIV. HAPPY JACK'S RUN FOR LIFE

XV. WHO SAVED HAPPY JACK SQUIRREL?

XVI. HAPPY JACK MISSES FARMER BROWN'S BOY

XVII. TOMMY TIT BRINGS NEWS

XVIII. HAPPY JACK DECIDES TO MAKE A CALL

XIX. TOMMY TIT AND HAPPY JACK PAY A VISIT

XX. WHAT WAS THE MATTER WITH FARMER BROWN'S BOY?

XXI. HAPPY JACK SQUIRREL GROWS VERY BOLD

XXII. HAPPY JACK DARES TOMMY TIT

XXIII. SAMMY JAY IS QUITE UPSET

XXIV. A DREAM COMES TRUE

XXV. HAPPY JACK HAS A HAPPY THOUGHT

XXVI. FARMER BROWN'S BOY WAKES WITH A START

XXVII. HAPPY JACK IS AFRAID TO GO HOME

XXVIII. HAPPY JACK FINDS A NEW HOME

XXIX. FARMER BROWN'S BOY TAKES A PRISONER

XXX. A PRISONER WITHOUT FEAR

XXXI. WHAT FARMER BROWN'S BOY DID WITH SHADOW

XXXII. HAPPY JACK IS PERFECTLY HAPPY

XXXIII. SAMMY JAY UPSETS HAPPY JACK




LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Peter Rabbit, who happened along just then, put his hands over his ears

Happy Jack tried every trick he knew to get away from Shadow the Weasel

"Did you find out anything?" asked Happy Jack eagerly

It wasn't long before Shadow began to receive many visitors




HAPPY JACK




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 won'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! He didn't want
Chatterer to find that.

I am afraid that Happy Jack was selfish. There were more nuts than he
could possibly eat in one winter, and yet he wasn't willing that his
cousin, Chatterer the Red Squirrel, should have a single one. Now
Chatterer is short-tempered and a great scold. Some one or something
had upset him this morning, and he was scolding as fast as his tongue
could go, as he came running right towards the tree in which Happy Jack
was sitting. Happy Jack sat perfectly still and watched. He didn't move
so much as the tip of his big gray tail. Would Chatterer go past and not
see that big tree full of nuts? It looked very much as if he would, for
he was so busy scolding that he wasn't paying much attention to other
things.