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  Speaker 1: Chapter one of Happy Jack. This is a LibriVox recording
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  Speaker 1: by carrin a praida Happy Jack by Thornton W. Burgess.
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  Speaker 1: Chapter one, Happy Jack drops a nut, save a little
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  Speaker 1: every day and for the future, put away Happy Jack.
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  Speaker 1: Happy Jack squirrel sat on the tip of one of
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  Speaker 1: the highest branches of a big hickory tree. Happy Jack
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  Speaker 1: was up very early that morning. In fact, Jolly round
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  Speaker 1: red Mister Sun was still in his bed behind the
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  Speaker 1: Purple Hills when Happy Jack hopped briskly out of bed.
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  Speaker 1: He washed himself thoroughly and was ready for business. By
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  Speaker 1: the time mister Sun began his climb up in the
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  Speaker 1: blue blue sky you see, Happy Jack found that big
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  Speaker 1: hickory tree just loaded with nuts, all ripe and ready together.
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  Speaker 1: He was quite sure that no one else had found
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  Speaker 1: that special tree, and you wanted to get all the
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  Speaker 1: nuts before any one else found out about them, So
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  Speaker 1: he was all ready and off he raced to the
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  Speaker 1: big tree just as soon as it was light enough
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  Speaker 1: to see the nuts that grow in the hickory tree.
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  Speaker 1: They're all for me, They're all for me. Happy Jack
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  Speaker 1: was humming that little song as he rested for a
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  Speaker 1: few minutes way up in the top of the tree,
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  Speaker 1: and wondered if his storehouse would hold hold his big
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  Speaker 1: fat nuts. Just then he heard a great scolding a
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  Speaker 1: little way over in the green forest. Happy Jack stopped
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  Speaker 1: humming and listened. He knew that voice. It was his
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  Speaker 1: cousin's voice, the voice of Chatterer the Red squirrel. Happy
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  Speaker 1: Jack frowned. I hope you won't come over this way,
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  Speaker 1: muttered Happy Jack. He does not love his cousin Chatterer anyway.
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  Speaker 1: And then there was the big tree full of hickory nuts.
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  Speaker 1: He didn't want Chatterer to find that. I am afraid
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  Speaker 1: that Happy Jack was selfish. There were more nuts than
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  Speaker 1: he could possibly eat in one winter, and yet he
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  Speaker 1: wasn't willing that his cousin, Chatterer the Red Squirrel, should
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  Speaker 1: have a single one. Now, Chatterer is short, temperate, and
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  Speaker 1: a great scold. Some one or something had upset him
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  Speaker 1: this morning, and he was colding as fast as his
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  Speaker 1: tongue could go as he came running right towards the
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  Speaker 1: tree in which Happy Jack was sitting. Happy Jack sat
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  Speaker 1: perfectly still and watched it. Didn't move so much as
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  Speaker 1: the tip of his big great tail. Would Chatterer go
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  Speaker 1: past and not see that big tree full of nuts?
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  Speaker 1: It looked very much as if he would, for he
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  Speaker 1: was so busy scolding that he wasn't paying much attention
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  Speaker 1: to other things. Happy Jack smiled as Chatterer came running
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  Speaker 1: under the tree without once looking up. He was so
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  Speaker 1: tickled that he started to hug himself and didn't remember
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  Speaker 1: that he was holding a big, fat nut in his hands.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, he dropped it. Where do you think it
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  Speaker 1: went well, sir? It fell straight down from the top
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  Speaker 1: of that tall tree, and it landed right on the
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  Speaker 1: head of Chatterer the red squirrel. My stars, cried Chatterer,
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  Speaker 1: stopping his colding and is running together and rubbing his
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  Speaker 1: head where the nut had hit him. Then he looked
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  Speaker 1: up to see where it had come from. Of course
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  Speaker 1: he looked straight up at Happy Jack. You did that, purposely,
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  Speaker 1: screamed Chatterer. It's short temper flaring up. I didn't, snapped,
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  Speaker 1: Happy Jack. You did. I didn't. Oh dear, oh dear,
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  Speaker 1: such a sight. Two little squirrels, one in a gray
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  Speaker 1: suit and one in a red suit, contradicting each other
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  Speaker 1: and calling names. It was such a sad, sad sight
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  Speaker 1: for you know they were cousins. End of chapter one.
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  Speaker 1: Recording by Kaarina Parea.
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  Speaker 2: Chapter two of Happy Jack. This is a LibriVox recording.
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  Speaker 2: All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more
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  Speaker 2: by Tracy Dan Turner, Harlan Kentucky w dot Tracy Dan
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  Speaker 2: dot com. Happy Jack by Thornton W. Burgess, Chapter two,
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  Speaker 2: The quarrel. It's up to you and up to me
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  Speaker 2: to see how thrifty we can be to do our
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  Speaker 2: bit like soldiers. True, it's up to me and up
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  Speaker 2: to you. Happy Jack. Two angry little people were making
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  Speaker 2: a dreadful noise in the green forest. It was a
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  Speaker 2: beautiful morning, a very beautiful fall morning, but all the
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  Speaker 2: beauty of it was being spoiled by the dreadful noise
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  Speaker 2: of these two little people. You see, they were quarreling, Yes, sir,
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  Speaker 2: they were quarreling, and it wasn't at all nice to
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  Speaker 2: see or nice to hear. You know who they were.
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  Speaker 2: One was Happy Jack squirrel who wears a coat of gray,
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  Speaker 2: and the other was Chatterer the red squirrel, who always
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  Speaker 2: wears a red coat with vest of white. Happy Jack
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  Speaker 2: had dropped that nut from the tip top of the
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  Speaker 2: tall hickory tree, and it landed right on top of
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  Speaker 2: Chatterer's head. It really had been an accident. All the time,
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  Speaker 2: Happy Jack had been setting as still as could be,
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  Speaker 2: hoping that his cousin Chatterer, would pass by without looking up.
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  Speaker 2: And so seeing the big fat nuts in the top
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  Speaker 2: of that tree, you see, Happy Jack was greedy and
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  Speaker 2: wanted all of them to himself. Now, Chatterer the Red
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  Speaker 2: squirrel has a sharp temper, and also he has sharp eyes.
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  Speaker 2: All the time he was scolding Happy Jack and calling
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  Speaker 2: him names, Chatterer's bright eyes were taking note of all
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  Speaker 2: those big fat hickory nuts, and his mouth began to water.
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  Speaker 2: Without wasting any more time, he started up the tree
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  Speaker 2: to get some Happy Jack grew very angry, very angry. Indeed,
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  Speaker 2: he hurried down to meet Chatterer the Red squirrel and
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  Speaker 2: to prevent him from climbing the tree. You keep out
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  Speaker 2: of this tree, it's mine, he shrieked, No such thing.
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  Speaker 2: You don't own the tree and I've got just as
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  Speaker 2: much right here as you have, screamed Chatterer, dodging around
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  Speaker 2: to the other side of the tree. 'tis too mine.
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  Speaker 2: I found it first, shouted Happy Jack. You're a thief,
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  Speaker 2: so there, I'm not you are you're a pig, Happy Jack,
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  Speaker 2: You're just a great big pig. I'm not a pig.
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  Speaker 2: I found these nuts first, and I tell you they're mine,
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  Speaker 2: shrieked Happy Jack, so angry that every time he spoke
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  Speaker 2: he jerked his tail. All the time he was chasing
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  Speaker 2: round and round the trunk of the tree trying to
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  Speaker 2: prevent Chatterer getting up. Now, Happy Jack is ever so
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  Speaker 2: much bigger than his cousin, Chatterer, but he isn't a
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  Speaker 2: spry so in spite of him, Chatterer got past, and
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  Speaker 2: like a little red flash, was up in the top
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  Speaker 2: of the tree where the big, fat and nuts were.
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  Speaker 2: But he didn't have time to pick even one, for
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  Speaker 2: after him came Happy Jack, so angry that Chatterer knew
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  Speaker 2: that he would fare badly if Happy Jack should catch him.
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  Speaker 2: Round and round, over and across this way and that
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  Speaker 2: in the top of the tall hickory tree raced Chatterer
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  Speaker 2: the red squirrel with his cousin Happy Jack, the gray
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  Speaker 2: squirrel right at his heels and calling him everything bad
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  Speaker 2: to be thought of. Yes, indeed it was truly dreadful,
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  Speaker 2: and Peter Rabbit who happened along just then put his
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  Speaker 2: hands over his ears so as not to hear such
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  Speaker 2: a dreadful quarrel. End of chapter two Chapter three of
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  Speaker 2: Happy Jack. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings
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  Speaker 2: please visit LibriVox dot org. Recording by Tracy Dan Turner Harlan,
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  Speaker 2: Kentucky www dot Tracy Dan dot com. Happy Jack by
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  Speaker 2: Thornton W. Burgess, Chapter three. Stripe Chipmunk is kept very busy.
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  Speaker 2: I prefer big acorns, but I never refuse little ones.
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  Speaker 2: They fit in between Happy Jack. Stripe Chipmunk was setting
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  Speaker 2: just inside a hollow log, studying about how he could
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  Speaker 2: fill up his new storehouse for the winter. Striped Chipmunk
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  Speaker 2: is very thrifty. He likes to play, and he is
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  Speaker 2: one of the merriest of all the little people who
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  Speaker 2: live on the green meadows or in the green forest.
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  Speaker 2: He lives right on the edges of both and knows everybody,
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  Speaker 2: and everybody knows him. Almost every morning, the merry little
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  Speaker 2: breezes of old mother west Wind hurry over to have
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  Speaker 2: a frolic with him the very first thing. But though
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  Speaker 2: he dearly loves to play, he never lets play interfere
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  Speaker 2: with his work. Whatever he does, be it play or work,
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  Speaker 2: he does it with all his might. I love the sun,
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  Speaker 2: I love the rain. I love to work, I love
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  Speaker 2: to play whatever it may bring to me. I love
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  Speaker 2: each minute of each day, so said striped Chipmunk, as
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  Speaker 2: he sat in the hollow log and studied how he
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  Speaker 2: could feel that splendid big news storehouse. Pretty soon he
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  Speaker 2: pricked up his funny little ears. What was all the
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  Speaker 2: noise over in the green forest, Striped Chipmunk peeped out
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  Speaker 2: of the hollow log. Over in the top of a
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  Speaker 2: tall hickory tree, A terrible fuss was going on. Striped
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  Speaker 2: Chipmunk listened. He heard angry voices. Such angry voices. They
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  Speaker 2: were the voices of his big cousins, happy Jack the
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  Speaker 2: gray squirrel, and Chatterer the red squirrel. Dear me, dear me,
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  Speaker 2: how those two do quarrel? I must go over and
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  Speaker 2: see what it's all about, thought Striped Chipmunk, So with
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  Speaker 2: a flirt of his funny little tail, he scampered out
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  Speaker 2: of the hollow log and over to the tall hickory tree.
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  Speaker 2: He knew all about that tree many and many times
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  Speaker 2: he had looked up at the big fat nuts in
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  Speaker 2: the top of it, watching them grow bigger and fatter,
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  Speaker 2: and hoping that when they grew ripe, old Mother west
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  Speaker 2: Wind would find time to shake them down to him.
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  Speaker 2: You know, Striped Chipmunk is not much of a climber,
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  Speaker 2: and so he cannot go up and pick the nuts
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  Speaker 2: as do his big cousins, Happy Jack and Chatterer. When
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  Speaker 2: he reached the tall hickory tree, what do you think
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  Speaker 2: was happening? Why? Those big fat nuts were rattling down
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  Speaker 2: to the ground on every side, just as if Old
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  Speaker 2: Mother west Wind was shaking the tree as hard as
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  Speaker 2: she could. But Old Mother west Wind wasn't there at all, No, sir,
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  Speaker 2: there wasn't even one of the merry little breezes up
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  Speaker 2: in the tree tops. The big fat nuts were rattling
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  Speaker 2: down just on account of the dreadful quarrel of Striped
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  Speaker 2: Chipmunk's two foolish cousins, Happy Jack, and Chatterer. It was
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  Speaker 2: all because Happy Jack was greedy. Chatterer had climbed the tree,
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  Speaker 2: and now Happy Jack, who is bigger but not so spry,
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  Speaker 2: was chasing Chatterer round and round over the tree top.
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  Speaker 2: And both were so angry that they didn't once notice
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  Speaker 2: that they were knocking down the very nuts over which
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  Speaker 2: they were quarreling. Striped Chipmunk didn't stop to listen to
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  Speaker 2: the quarrel, No, sir, ree. He stuffed a big fat
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  Speaker 2: nut in each pocket in his cheeks and scampered back
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  Speaker 2: to his splendid new storehouse as fast as his little
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  Speaker 2: legs would take him. Back and forth, Back and forth,
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  Speaker 2: scampered Striped Chipmunk, and all the time he was laughing
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  Speaker 2: in side and hoping his big cousins would keep right
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  Speaker 2: on quarreling. End of chapter three, Chapter four of Happy Jack.
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  Speaker 2: Thornton W. Burgess, Chapter four, Happy Jack and Chatterer feel foolish.
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  Speaker 2: If you get and spend a penny, then of course
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  Speaker 2: you haven't any Be like me, a happy Jack, and
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  Speaker 2: put it where you'll get it back, Happy Jack, Happy Jack,
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  Speaker 2: and Chatterer, we're out of break. Happy Jack was puffing
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  Speaker 2: and blowing, for he's big and fat, and it's not
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  Speaker 2: so easy for him to race about in the tree
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  Speaker 2: tops as it is for his smaller, slim, nimble cousin, Chatterer.
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  Speaker 2: So Happy Jack was the first to stop. He sat
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  Speaker 2: on a branch way up on the top of the
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  Speaker 2: tall hickory tree and clared across at Chatterer, who sat
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  Speaker 2: on a branch on the other side of the tall tree.
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  Speaker 2: Couldn't catch me, could you, Smarty, taunted chatterer. You just
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  Speaker 2: wait until I do. I'll make you sorry you ever
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  Speaker 2: came near my hickory tree, snapped Happy Jack. I'm waiting. Besides,
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  Speaker 2: it isn't your tree anymore than it's mine, replied Chatterer
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  Speaker 2: and made a face at Happy Jack. Happy Jack hopped
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  Speaker 2: up as if he meant to begin to chase again,
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  Speaker 2: but he had a pain in his side from running
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  Speaker 2: so hard and so long, and so he sat down again,
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  Speaker 2: right down in his heart Happy Jack knew that Chatterer
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  Speaker 2: was right, that the tree it didn't belong to him
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  Speaker 2: any more than to his cousin. But when he thought
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  Speaker 2: of all those big, fat nuts with which the tall
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  Speaker 2: hickory tree had been loaded, greedy thoughts chased out all
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  Speaker 2: the thoughts of right, and he said to himself again,
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  Speaker 2: as he had said when he first saw his cousin,
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  Speaker 2: that Chatterer shouldn't have one of them. He stopped scolding
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  Speaker 2: long enough to steal a look at them. And then
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  Speaker 2: what do you think Happy Jack did? Why? He gave
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  Speaker 2: such a jump of surprise that he nearly lost his balance.
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  Speaker 2: Not a nut was to be seen. Happy Jack blinked.
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  Speaker 2: Then he rubbed his eyes and looked again. He couldn't
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  Speaker 2: see a nut anywhere. There were husk in which the
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  Speaker 2: nuts had grown big and fat until they were ripe,
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  Speaker 2: but now every husk was empty. Chatterer saw the queer
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  Speaker 2: look on Happy Jack's face, and he looked too. Now, Chatterer,
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  Speaker 2: the red squirrel had very quick wits, and he guessed
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  Speaker 2: right away what had happened. He knew that while they
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  Speaker 2: had been quarreling and racing over the top of the
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  Speaker 2: tall hickory tree, they must have knocked down all the nuts,
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  Speaker 2: which were just ready to fall anyway, like a little
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  Speaker 2: red flash, Chatterer started down the tree. Then Happy Jack
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  Speaker 2: guessed too, and down he started as fast as he
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  Speaker 2: could go, crying stop thief all the way. When he
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  Speaker 2: reached the ground, there was Chatterer scurrying around, poking under
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  Speaker 2: the fallen leaves, but he hadn't found a single nut.
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  Speaker 2: Happy Jack couldn't stop to quarrel anymore, because, you see,
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  Speaker 2: he was afraid that Chatterer would find the biggest and
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  Speaker 2: fattest nuts, so he began to scurry around and hunt too.
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  Speaker 2: It was queer, very queer, how those nuts could have hidden.
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  Speaker 2: So they hunted and hunted, but no nuts were to
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  Speaker 2: be found. Then they stopped and stared at the top
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  Speaker 2: of the tall hickory tree. Not a nut could they see.
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  Speaker 2: Then they stared at each other, and gradually a foolish,
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  Speaker 2: very foolish look crept over each face. Where where do
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  Speaker 2: you suppose they've gone? Asked Happy Jack in a queer
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  Speaker 2: sounding voice. Just then they heard someone laughing fit to
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  Speaker 2: kill himself. It was Peter Rabbit. Did you take our
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  Speaker 2: hickory nuts? They both shouted angrily, no, replied Peter Rabbit. No,
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  Speaker 2: I didn't take them, though they were not yours anyway,
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  Speaker 2: And then he went off into another fit of laughter,
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  Speaker 2: for Peter had seen Striped Chipmunk very hard at work
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  Speaker 2: taking away those very nuts while his two big cousins
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  Speaker 2: had been quarreling in the treetops. End of chapter four,
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  Speaker 2: Chapter five of Happy Jack. This is a LibriVox recording.
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  Speaker 2: All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more
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  Speaker 2: by Tracy Dan Turner Harlan Kentucky www dot Tracy Dan
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  Speaker 2: dot com. Happy Jack by Thornton W. Burgess. Chapter five
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  Speaker 2: Happy Jack suspects Striped Chipmunk thrift is one test of
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  Speaker 2: true loyalty to your country, Happy Jack. Happy Jack didn't
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  Speaker 2: look happy a bit. Indeed, Happy Jack looked very unhappy.
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  Speaker 2: You see, he looked as he felt he had set
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  Speaker 2: his heart on having all the big fat nuts that
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  Speaker 2: he had found in the top of the tall hickory tree,
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  Speaker 2: and now instead of having them all, he hadn't any
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  Speaker 2: of them. Worse still, he knew right down in his
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  Speaker 2: heart that it was his own fault. He had been
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  Speaker 2: too greedy? But what had become of those nuts? Happy
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  Speaker 2: Jack was studying about this as he sat with his
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  Speaker 2: back against a big chestnut tree. He remembered how hard
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  Speaker 2: Peter Rabbit had laughed when Happy Jack and his cousin,
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  Speaker 2: Chatterer of the Red Squirrel had been so surprised because
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  Speaker 2: they could not find the nuts that they had knocked down.
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  Speaker 2: Peter hadn't taken them, for Peter has no use for them.
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  Speaker 2: But he must know what had become of them, for
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  Speaker 2: he was still laughing as he had gone off down
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  Speaker 2: the lone little path. While he was thinking of all this,
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  Speaker 2: Happy Jack's bright eyes had been wide open, as they
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  Speaker 2: usually are, so that no danger could come near. Suddenly
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  Speaker 2: they saw something moving among the brown and yellow leaves
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  Speaker 2: on the ground. Happy Jack looked sharply, and then a
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  Speaker 2: sudden thought popped into his head. Hi there, cousin chipmunk,
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  Speaker 2: He shouted, Hi there, your own self, replied Striped Chipmunk,
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  Speaker 2: for it was he. What are you doing down there,
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  Speaker 2: asked Happy Jack, looking for hickory nuts, replied Striped Chipmunk,
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  Speaker 2: and his eyes twinkled as he said it, for there
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  Speaker 2: wasn't a hickory tree near Happy Jack looked hard at
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  Speaker 2: Striped Chipmunk for that sudden thought which had popped into
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  Speaker 2: his head when he first saw Striped Chipmunk. Was growing
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  Speaker 2: into a strong, a very strong suspicion that Striped Chipmunk
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  Speaker 2: knew something about those lost hickory nuts. But Striped Chipmunk
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  Speaker 2: looked back at him so innocently that Happy Jack didn't
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  Speaker 2: know just what to think. Have you begun to fill
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  Speaker 2: your storehouse for winter yet, inquired Happy Jack. Of course
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  Speaker 2: I have. I don't mean to let Jack Frost catch
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  Speaker 2: me with an empty storehouse, replied Striped Chipmunk. When leaves
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  Speaker 2: turn yellow, brown and red, and nuts come pitter patter down,
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  Speaker 2: when days are short and swiftly sped, and Autumn wears
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  Speaker 2: her colored gown. I'm up before old mister sun his
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  Speaker 2: nightcap has a chains to doff, and have my day's
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  Speaker 2: work well begun when others kick their bedclothes off. What
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  Speaker 2: are you filling your storehouse with? Asked Happy Jack, trying
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  Speaker 2: not to show too much interest. Corn, nice ripe corn,
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  Speaker 2: and seeds and acorns and chestnuts, answered Striped Chipmunk. And
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  Speaker 2: now I'm looking for some big fat hickory nuts, he added,
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  Speaker 2: and his bright eyes twinkled. Have you seen any Happy Jack?
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  Speaker 2: Happy Jack said that he hadn't seen any, and Striped
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  Speaker 2: Chipmunk remarked that he couldn't waste any more time talking
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  Speaker 2: and scurried away. Happy Jack watched him go a puzzled
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  Speaker 2: little frown, puckering up his brows. I believe he knows
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  Speaker 2: something about those nuts. I think I'll follow him and
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  Speaker 2: have a peep into his storehouse, he muttered. End of
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  Speaker 2: chapter five, Chapter six of Happy Jack. This is a
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  Speaker 2: Recording by Tracy Dan Turner, Harlan, Kentucky www dot Tracy
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  Speaker 2: Dan dot com. Chapter six, Happy Jack spies on Striped Chipmunk.
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  Speaker 2: It's more important to find your own affairs than to
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  Speaker 2: know what your neighbors are doing. But not nearly so
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: interesting happy Jack. Stripe Chipmunk was whisking about among the
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  Speaker 2: brown and yellow leaves that covered the ground on the
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  Speaker 2: edge of the green forest. He's such a little fellow
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  Speaker 2: that he looked almost like a brown leaf himself. And
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: when one of old Mother West wind's merry little breezes
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  Speaker 2: whirled the brown leaves in a mad little dance around him.
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  Speaker 2: It was the hardest work in the world to see
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  Speaker 2: striped chipmunk at all. Anyway, happy Jack squirrel found it.
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  Speaker 2: So you see, Happy Jack was spying on striped chipmunk. Yes, sir,
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  Speaker 2: Happy Jack was spying. Spying, you know, is secretly watching
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  Speaker 2: other people and trying to find out what they're doing.
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  Speaker 2: It isn't a nice thing to do, not a bit nice.
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  Speaker 2: Happy Jack knew it, and all the time he was
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  Speaker 2: doing it, he was feeling very much ashamed of himself.
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: But he said to himself that he just had to
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  Speaker 2: know where Striped Chipmunk's storehouse was, because he just had
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  Speaker 2: to peep inside and find out if it held any
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  Speaker 2: of the big fat hickory nuts that had disappeared from
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: under the tall hickory tree while he was quarreling up
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  Speaker 2: in the top of it with his cousin, Chatterer the
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  Speaker 2: red squirrel. But spying on striped chipmunk isn't the easiest
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  Speaker 2: thing in the world. Happy Jack was finding it the
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: hardest work he had ever undertaken. Striped Chipmunk is so
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  Speaker 2: spry and whisk about so that you need eyes all
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  Speaker 2: around your head to keep track of him. Happy Jack
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  Speaker 2: found that his two eyes, bright and quick as they are,
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  Speaker 2: couldn't keep that little elf of a cousin of his
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  Speaker 2: always in sight. Every few minutes, he would disappear and
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: then bob up again in the most unexpected place and
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  Speaker 2: most provoking way. Now I'm here, and now I'm there.
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: Now I'm not anywhere. Watch me now, for here I
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  Speaker 2: go out of sight. I told you so. With the
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: last words, Striped Chipmunk was nowhere to be seen. It
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: seemed as if the earth must have opened up and
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: swallowed him, but it happened. For two minutes later, Happy
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: Jack saw him flirting with his funny little tail in
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: the sauciest way as he scampered along an old log.
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: Happy Jack began to suspect that Striped Chipmunk was just
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: having fun with him. What else could he mean by
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: saying such things? And yet Happy Jack was sure that
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  Speaker 2: Striped Chipmunk cap'n seen him. For all the time he
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  Speaker 2: was watching, Happy Jack had taken the greatest care to
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  Speaker 2: keep hidden himself. No, it couldn't be. It just couldn't
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  Speaker 2: be that Striped Chipmunk knew that he was anywhere about.
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  Speaker 2: He would just be patient a little longer, and he
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  Speaker 2: would surely see that smart little cousin of his go
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  Speaker 2: to his storehouse. So Happy Jack waited and watched. End
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  Speaker 2: of chapter six. Chapter seven of Happy Jack. This is
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• 26:08
  Speaker 2: Striped Chipmunk has fun with Happy Jack. Thrift is the
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: meat in the nut of success, Happy Jack. Striped Chipmunk
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  Speaker 2: would shout, in his shrillest voice, hippity hoppity one, two three,
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  Speaker 2: what do you think becomes of me? Then he would
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: vanish from sight all in the wink of an eye.
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: You couldn't tell where he went to. At least Happy
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  Speaker 2: Jack couldn't, and his eyes are sharper than yours or mine.
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  Speaker 2: Happy Jack was spying you, remember, he was watching striped
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  Speaker 2: Chipmunk without letting Striped Chipmunk know it. At least he
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  Speaker 2: thought he was. But really he wasn't those sharp twinkling
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  Speaker 2: eyes of Striped Chipmunk see everything. You know. He's such
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  Speaker 2: a very little fellow that he has to be very
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  Speaker 2: wide awake to keep out of dame. And he is
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  Speaker 2: wide awake, oh my yes, indeed, when he is wake,
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: that is every minute of the daytime. He is the
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  Speaker 2: most wide awake little fellow you ever did see. He
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  Speaker 2: had seen Happy Jack the very first thing, and he
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  Speaker 2: had guessed right away that Happy Jack was spying on
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  Speaker 2: him so as to find out if he had any
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  Speaker 2: of the big fat hickory nuts. Now Striped Chipmunk had
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  Speaker 2: all of those fat hickory nuts safely hidden in his
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: splendid new storehouse, but he didn't intend to let Happy
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: Jack know it. So he just pretended not to see
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  Speaker 2: Happy Jack or to know that he was anywhere near,
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: but acted as if he was just going about his
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  Speaker 2: own business. Really, he was just having the best time
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  Speaker 2: ever fooling Happy Jack. The corn is ripe, the nuts
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  Speaker 2: do fall, acorns are sweet and plump. I soon will
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  Speaker 2: have my storehouse full inside the hollow stump. Stripe Chipmunk's
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  Speaker 2: saying this just as if no one was anywhere near,
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: and he was singing just for joy. Of course, Happy
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  Speaker 2: Jack heard it, and he grinned. So your storehouse is
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  Speaker 2: in a hollow stump, my smart little cousin, said Happy
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  Speaker 2: Jack to himself. If that's the case, I'll soon find it.
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  Speaker 2: Striped Chipmunk scurried along, and now he took pains to
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  Speaker 2: always keep in sight. Happy Jack followed, hiding behind the trees.
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  Speaker 2: Pretty soon, Striped Chipmunk picked up a plump acorn and
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  Speaker 2: put it in the pocket of his right cheek. Then
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: he picked up another and put it in the pocket
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  Speaker 2: of his left cheek. Then he crowded another into each,
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  Speaker 2: and his face was swelled so that you would hardly
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  Speaker 2: have guessed it was striped Chipmunk if you had chance
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  Speaker 2: to meet him. My, my, he was a funny sight.
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: Happy Jack grinned again as he watched, partly because Striped
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  Speaker 2: Chipmunk looked so funny, and partly because he knew that
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  Speaker 2: if Striped Chipmunk was going to eat the acorns right away,
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  Speaker 2: he wouldn't stuff them into the pockets of his cheeks.
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: But he had done this very thing, so he must
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  Speaker 2: be going to take them to his storehouse. Off scampered
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  Speaker 2: Striped Chipmunk, and after him stole Happy Jack, his eyes
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  Speaker 2: shining with excitement. Pretty soon he saw an old stump
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  Speaker 2: which looked as if it must be hollow. Happy Jack
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: grinned more than ever as he carefully hid himself and
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: watched Striped Chipmunk scrambled up on the old stump, looked
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  Speaker 2: this way and that way, as if to be sure
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  Speaker 2: no one was watching him. Then with a flirt of
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  Speaker 2: his funny little tail, he darted into a little round doorway.
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: He was gone a long time, but by and by
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  Speaker 2: out he popped, looked this way and that way, and
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: scampered off in the direction from which he had come.
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: Happy Jack didn't try to follow him. He waited until
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: he was sure Striped Chipmunk was out of sight and hearing,
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  Speaker 2: and then he over to the old stump. It's his storehouse,
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  Speaker 2: fast enough, said Happy Jack. End of chapter seven Chapter
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  Speaker 2: eight of Happy Jack. This is a LibriVox recording. All
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• 30:38
  Speaker 2: Happy Jack by Thornton W. Burgess, Chapter eight, Happy Jack
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  Speaker 2: turns burglar. As trees from little acrens sew great sums
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: from little pennies grow, Happy Jack Happy Jack squirrels stood
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  Speaker 2: in front of the old stump into which he had
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  Speaker 2: seen striped chipmunk go with the pockets and his cheeks
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  Speaker 2: full of acorns, and out of which he had come
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: with the pockets of his cheeks quite empty. It certainly
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  Speaker 2: is his storehouse. And now I'll find out if he's
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  Speaker 2: the one who got all those big fat hickory nuts,
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: muttered happy Jack. First he looked this way, and then
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  Speaker 2: he looked that way to be sure no one saw him.
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  Speaker 2: For what he was planning to do was a very
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  Speaker 2: dreadful thing, and he knew it. Happy Jack was going
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  Speaker 2: to turn burglar. A burglar, you know, is one who
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: breaks into another's house or barn to steal, which is
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: a very very dreadful thing to do. Yet this is
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: just what happy Jack squirrel was planning to do. He
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: was going to get into that old stump, and if
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: those big fat hickory nuts were there, as he was
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: sure they were, he was going to take them. He
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  Speaker 2: tried very hard to make himself believe that wouldn't be stealing.
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  Speaker 2: He had watched those nuts in the top of the
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  Speaker 2: tall hickory trees along that he had grown to think
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  Speaker 2: that they belonged to him. Of course they didn't, but
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  Speaker 2: he had made himself think they did. Happy Jack walked
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  Speaker 2: all around the old stump, and then he climbed up
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  Speaker 2: on top of it. There was only one doorway, and
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: that was the little round hole through which Striped Chipmunk
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: had entered and then come out. It was too small
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  Speaker 2: for happy Jack to even get his head through, though
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  Speaker 2: his cousin, Chatterer the squirrel, who was much smaller, could
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  Speaker 2: have slipped in easily. Happy Jack sniffed and sniffed. He
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  Speaker 2: could smell nuts and corn and other good things. My,
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: how good they did smell. His eyes shone greedily. Happy
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: Jack took one more hasty look around to see that
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  Speaker 2: no one was watching. Then, with his long, sharp teeth,
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: he began to make the doorway larger. The wood was tough,
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: but Happy Jack worked with might and main, for he
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  Speaker 2: wanted to get those nuts and get away before Striped
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  Speaker 2: Chipmunk should return or anyone else should happen along and
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  Speaker 2: see him. Soon the hole was big enough for him
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  Speaker 2: to get his head inside. It was a storehouse, sure enough.
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: Happy Jack worked harder than ever, and soon the hole
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  Speaker 2: was large enough for him to get wholly inside.
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  Speaker 3: What a sight.
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  Speaker 2: There was corn, and there were chestnuts and acorns, and
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  Speaker 2: there were a few hickory nuts, though these did not
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  Speaker 2: look so big and fat as the ones Happy Jack
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  Speaker 2: was looking for. Happy Jack chuckled to himself a wicked,
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: greedy chuckle as he looked. And then something happened. Oh oh,
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: stop it, leave me alone, yelled Happy Jack. End of
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  Speaker 2: chapter eight.
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  Speaker 4: Chapter nine of Happy Jack. This is a LibriVox recording.
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  Speaker 4: Jack by Thornton W. Burgess, Chapter nine, Happy Jack Squirrel's
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  Speaker 4: sad mistake. A squirrel always is thrifty, be as wise
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  Speaker 4: as a squirrel. Happy Jack, Let me go, Let me go,
• 34:39
  Speaker 4: yelled Happy Jack as he backed out of the hollow
• 34:43
  Speaker 4: stump faster than he had gone in a great deal faster.
• 34:48
  Speaker 4: Can you guess why, I'll tell you it was because
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  Speaker 4: he was being pulled out, Yes, sir, Happy Jack squirrel
• 34:58
  Speaker 4: was being pulled out by his big, bushy tail. Happy
• 35:04
  Speaker 4: Jack was more frightened than hurt. To be sure, it
• 35:08
  Speaker 4: is not at all comfortable to have one's tail pulled.
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  Speaker 4: But Happy Jack wouldn't have minded this so much had
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  Speaker 4: it not been so unexpected, or if he could have
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  Speaker 4: seen who was pulling it. And then right inside, Happy
• 35:26
  Speaker 4: Jack didn't feel a bit good. Why well, because he
• 35:32
  Speaker 4: was doing a dreadful thing, and he knew that it
• 35:37
  Speaker 4: was a dreadful thing. He had broken into somebody's storehouse
• 35:43
  Speaker 4: to steal. He was sure that it was Striped Chipmunk's storehouse,
• 35:49
  Speaker 4: and he wouldn't admit to himself that he was going
• 35:51
  Speaker 4: to steal, actually steal. But all the time, right down
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  Speaker 4: deep in his heart, he knew that if he took
• 36:02
  Speaker 4: any of those hickory nuts, it would be stealing. But
• 36:07
  Speaker 4: Happy Jack had been careless. When he had made the
• 36:11
  Speaker 4: doorway big enough for him to crawl inside, he had
• 36:14
  Speaker 4: left his tail hanging outside. Someone had very very softly
• 36:21
  Speaker 4: stolen up and grabbed it and began to pull It
• 36:26
  Speaker 4: was so sudden and unexpected that Happy Jack yelled with fright.
• 36:32
  Speaker 4: When he could get his wits together, he thought, of course,
• 36:36
  Speaker 4: striped chipmunk had come back and was pulling his tail
• 36:40
  Speaker 4: when he thought that he got over his fright right away.
• 36:44
  Speaker 4: For striped chipmunk is such a little fellow that Happy
• 36:47
  Speaker 4: Jack knew that he had nothing to fear from him.
• 36:51
  Speaker 4: So as fast as he could, Happy Jack backed out
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  Speaker 4: of the hole and whirled around. Of course, he expected
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  Speaker 4: to face a very angry little chipmunk, but he didn't, no, sir,
• 37:06
  Speaker 4: he didn't. Instead, he looked right into the angry face
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  Speaker 4: of his other cousin, Chatterer, the red squirrel, and Chatterer
• 37:18
  Speaker 4: was angry. Oh my, my, how angry Chatterer was. For
• 37:25
  Speaker 4: a minute, he couldn't find his voice because anger fairly
• 37:30
  Speaker 4: choked him. And when he did, how his tongue did fly.
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  Speaker 4: You thief, you robber, What are you doing in my storehouse?
• 37:42
  Speaker 4: He shrieked. Happy Jack backed away hurriedly, For though he
• 37:47
  Speaker 4: is much bigger than Chatterer, he has a very wholesome
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  Speaker 4: respect for Chatterer's sharp teeth, and when he is very angry,
• 37:59
  Speaker 4: chat is a great fighter. I I didn't know it
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  Speaker 4: was your storehouse, said Happy Jack, backing away still further.
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  Speaker 4: It doesn't make any difference if you didn't you're a
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  Speaker 4: thief just the same, screamed Chatterer and rushed at Happy Jack.
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  Speaker 4: And what do you think Happy Jack did? Why? He
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  Speaker 4: just turned tail and ran Chatterer after him, crying thief
• 38:30
  Speaker 4: robber coward at the top of his lungs, so that
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  Speaker 4: everyone in the green forest could hear. End of chapter nine.
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  Speaker 5: Chapter ten of Happy Jack. This is a LibriVox recording.
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• 39:05
  Speaker 5: Jack by Thornton W. Burgess, Chapter ten. Striped Chipmunk's happy
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  Speaker 5: thought waste seems to me a dreadful sin. It works
• 39:16
  Speaker 5: to lose and not to win. Thrift will win, it
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  Speaker 5: cannot lose. Between them, tis for you to choose Happy Jack.
• 39:26
  Speaker 5: Striped Chipmunk sat on a mossy old log, laughing until
• 39:31
  Speaker 5: his sides ached. Ha ha ha ha ho ho oh
• 39:37
  Speaker 5: dear oh dear ho ho laft Striped Chipmunk, holding his
• 39:44
  Speaker 5: sides over in the green forest, he could still hear
• 39:48
  Speaker 5: chatter the red squirrel crying thief robber as he chased
• 39:53
  Speaker 5: his big cousin Happy Jack, and every time he heard it,
• 39:57
  Speaker 5: Striped Chipmunk laughed harder. You see, Striped Chipmunk had known
• 40:03
  Speaker 5: all the time that Happy Jack was spying on him,
• 40:06
  Speaker 5: and he had had no end of fun fooling Happy
• 40:09
  Speaker 5: Jack by suddenly disappearing and then bobbing into view. He
• 40:13
  Speaker 5: had known that Happy Jack was following him so as
• 40:16
  Speaker 5: to find out where his storehouse was. Then Striped Chipmunk
• 40:21
  Speaker 5: had remembered the storehouse of Chattered the Red Squirrel. He
• 40:24
  Speaker 5: had filled the pockets and his cheeks with acorns and
• 40:28
  Speaker 5: had gone straight over to Chatterer's storehouse and put them inside,
• 40:32
  Speaker 5: knowing that Happy Jack would follow him and would think
• 40:36
  Speaker 5: that that was his storehouse. And that is just what happened.
• 40:41
  Speaker 5: Then Striped Chipmunk had hidden himself where he could see
• 40:45
  Speaker 5: all that happened. He had seen Happy Jack look all
• 40:50
  Speaker 5: round to make sure that no one was near, and
• 40:53
  Speaker 5: then tear open the little doorway of Chatterer's storehouse until
• 40:57
  Speaker 5: it was big enough for him to squeeze through. He
• 40:59
  Speaker 5: had seeing Chatterer come up, fly into a rage, and
• 41:03
  Speaker 5: pull Happy Jack out by the tail. Indeed, he had
• 41:07
  Speaker 5: to clap both hands over his mouth to keep from
• 41:10
  Speaker 5: laughing out loud. Then Happy Jack had turned tail and
• 41:14
  Speaker 5: run away, with Chatterer after him, shouting thief and robber
• 41:18
  Speaker 5: at the top of his voice, And this had tickled
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  Speaker 5: Striped Chipmunk still more, for he knew that Chatterer himself
• 41:26
  Speaker 5: is one of the greatest thieves in the green forest.
• 41:30
  Speaker 5: So he sat on the mossy old log and laughed
• 41:33
  Speaker 5: and laughed and laughed. Finally, Striped Chipmunk wiped the tears
• 41:39
  Speaker 5: from his eyes and jumped up. My my, this will
• 41:43
  Speaker 5: never do, he said. Idle hands and idle feet never
• 41:47
  Speaker 5: filled a storehouse yet, but instead, so I've heard say,
• 41:53
  Speaker 5: into mischief. Surely get here. It is almost Thanksgiving, and
• 42:00
  Speaker 5: Striped Chipmunk stopped and scratched his head while a funny,
• 42:04
  Speaker 5: little pleased look crept into his face. I wonder if
• 42:09
  Speaker 5: Happy Jack and chatter would come to a Thanksgiving dinner,
• 42:12
  Speaker 5: he muttered. I believe I'll ask them, just for fun.
• 42:17
  Speaker 5: Then Striped Chipmunk hurried home, full of his new idea
• 42:21
  Speaker 5: and chuckled as he planned his Thanksgiving dinner. Of course,
• 42:24
  Speaker 5: he wouldn't have it in his own house. That wouldn't
• 42:28
  Speaker 5: do at all. In the first place, the doorway would
• 42:31
  Speaker 5: be altogether too small for Happy Jack. Anyway, his home
• 42:36
  Speaker 5: was a secret, his very own secret, and he didn't
• 42:40
  Speaker 5: propose to let Happy Jack and Chatterer know where it was,
• 42:43
  Speaker 5: even for a Thanksgiving dinner. And then he thought of
• 42:48
  Speaker 5: the big, smooth, mossy log he had been sitting on
• 42:51
  Speaker 5: that very morning, the very place, cried Striped Chipmunk and
• 42:56
  Speaker 5: scurried away to find Happy Jack, Squirrel and Chattered the
• 43:00
  Speaker 5: squirrel to invite them to his Thanksgiving dinner. End of
• 43:05
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  Speaker 5: Happy Jack by Thornton W. Burgess, Chapter eleven, Striped Chipmunks
• 43:31
  Speaker 5: Thanksgiving Dinner. There is nothing quite so sweet in life
• 43:35
  Speaker 5: as making up and ending strife. Happy Jack. Striped Chipmunk
• 43:41
  Speaker 5: jumped out of bed early Thanksgiving morning. It was going
• 43:45
  Speaker 5: to be a very busy day. He had invited Happy Jack,
• 43:48
  Speaker 5: this gray squirrel, and Chatter the red squirrel to eat
• 43:52
  Speaker 5: Thanksgiving dinner with him, and each had promised to be there.
• 43:56
  Speaker 5: Striped Chipmunk chuckled as he thought how neither of his
• 44:00
  Speaker 5: guests knew that the other was to be there. He
• 44:03
  Speaker 5: washed his face and hands, brushed his hair, and ate
• 44:07
  Speaker 5: his breakfast. Then he scurried over to his splendid new storehouse,
• 44:12
  Speaker 5: which no one knew of but himself, and stuffed the
• 44:15
  Speaker 5: pockets and his cheeks with good things to eat. When
• 44:18
  Speaker 5: he couldn't stuff another thing, he scurried over to the
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  Speaker 5: nice mossy log on the edge of the green forest,
• 44:26
  Speaker 5: and there he emptied his pockets, for that was to
• 44:29
  Speaker 5: be his dining table. Back and forth, back and forth
• 44:33
  Speaker 5: between his secret storehouse and the smooth mossy log, hurried
• 44:38
  Speaker 5: striped chipmunk. He knew that happy Jack and Chatter had
• 44:41
  Speaker 5: great appetites, and he wanted to be sure that there
• 44:45
  Speaker 5: was plenty of good things to eat. And as he
• 44:47
  Speaker 5: scurried along, he sang a little song. Thanksgiving comes but
• 44:52
  Speaker 5: once a year, but when it comes, it brings good year.
• 44:56
  Speaker 5: For in my sore house on this day are piles
• 45:00
  Speaker 5: of good things hid away.
• 45:03
  Speaker 6: Each day I've.
• 45:04
  Speaker 5: Worked from early morn together eight corns in its acorn,
• 45:10
  Speaker 5: till now I've plenty and to spare without a worby
• 45:14
  Speaker 5: your care, so light of heart in the whole day long,
• 45:20
  Speaker 5: I'll sing a glad things giving song promptly. At the
• 45:26
  Speaker 5: dinner hour, Happy Jack appeared coming from one direction, and
• 45:31
  Speaker 5: Shatterer the Red squirrel, coming from another direction. They didn't
• 45:35
  Speaker 5: see each other until just as they reached Striped Chipmunk's
• 45:39
  Speaker 5: smooth mossy log. They stopped and scowled. Striped Chipmunk pretended
• 45:45
  Speaker 5: not to notice anything wrong and bustled about, talking all
• 45:49
  Speaker 5: the time, as if his guests were best to friends.
• 45:53
  Speaker 5: On the smooth mossy log was a great pile of
• 45:56
  Speaker 5: shining yellow corn. There was another pile of plump ripe acorns,
• 46:02
  Speaker 5: and three little piles of dainty looking brown seeds. But
• 46:06
  Speaker 5: the thing that Happy Jack couldn't keep his eyes off
• 46:10
  Speaker 5: was right in the middle. It was a huge pile
• 46:13
  Speaker 5: of big, fat hickory nuts. Now, who could remain ill
• 46:18
  Speaker 5: tempered and cross with such a lot of goodies spread
• 46:22
  Speaker 5: before him? Certainly not Happy Jack or his cousin chattered
• 46:26
  Speaker 5: the red squirrel. They had just had to smile in
• 46:30
  Speaker 5: spite of themselves, and when Striped Chipmunk urged them to
• 46:35
  Speaker 5: sit down and help themselves, they did. In three minutes.
• 46:39
  Speaker 5: They were so busy eating that they had forgotten all
• 46:41
  Speaker 5: about their quarrel and were laughing and chatting like the
• 46:46
  Speaker 5: best of friends. It's quite a family party, isn't it,
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  Speaker 5: said Striped Chipmunk, for you know they were all cousins.
• 46:55
  Speaker 5: Whitefoot the wood Mouse happened along, and Striped Chipmunk insisted
• 47:00
  Speaker 5: that he should join the party. Later, Sammy Jay came along,
• 47:04
  Speaker 5: and nothing would excuse him from sharing in the feast too.
• 47:07
  Speaker 5: When everybody had eaten and eaten until they couldn't hold
• 47:10
  Speaker 5: another thing, it was time to think of going home.
• 47:14
  Speaker 5: Stripe Chipmunk insisted that Happy Jack and Chatter should divide
• 47:18
  Speaker 5: between them the big fat hickory nuts that were left,
• 47:23
  Speaker 5: and they did without once quarreling about it. Thanksgiving comes
• 47:28
  Speaker 5: but once a year, and when it comes, it brings
• 47:31
  Speaker 5: good cheer, said Stripe Chipmunk to himself as he watched
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  Speaker 5: his guest depart end of chapter eleven. Chapter twelve of
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  Speaker 5: Happy Jack. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings
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  Speaker 5: w Burgess, Chapter twelve, Happy Jack does some thinking. To
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  Speaker 5: call another a thief doesn't make him one happy Jack.
• 48:12
  Speaker 5: Happy Jack sat up in a chestnut tree, and his
• 48:15
  Speaker 5: face was very sober. The fact is, Happy Jack was
• 48:20
  Speaker 5: doing some very hard thinking. This was so very unusual
• 48:24
  Speaker 5: for him that Sammy Jay stopped to ask him if
• 48:26
  Speaker 5: he was sick. You see, he is naturally a happy,
• 48:29
  Speaker 5: go lucky little scamp, and that is one reason that
• 48:32
  Speaker 5: he is called Happy Jack. But this morning he was
• 48:36
  Speaker 5: thinking and thinking hard, so hard, in fact, that he
• 48:39
  Speaker 5: almost lost his temper when Sammy Jay interrupted his thoughts
• 48:44
  Speaker 5: with such a foolish question. What was he thinking about?
• 48:48
  Speaker 5: Can you not guess why? He was thinking about those big,
• 48:52
  Speaker 5: fat hickory nuts that Striped Chipmunk had had for his
• 48:57
  Speaker 5: Thanksgiving dinner, and how Striped Chipmunk had given him some
• 49:01
  Speaker 5: of them to bring home. He was very sure that
• 49:05
  Speaker 5: they were the very same nuts he had watched grow
• 49:08
  Speaker 5: big and fat in the top of the tall hickory
• 49:12
  Speaker 5: tree and then had knocked down while chasing his cousin Chatterer.
• 49:17
  Speaker 5: When they had reached the ground and found the nuts
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  Speaker 5: gone habby. Jack had at once suspected that Striped Chipmunk
• 49:25
  Speaker 5: had taken them, and now he felt sure about it.
• 49:29
  Speaker 5: But all at once things looked very different to Habby Jack,
• 49:33
  Speaker 5: And the more he thought about how he had acted,
• 49:36
  Speaker 5: the more ashamed of himself he grew. There certainly must
• 49:40
  Speaker 5: have been enough of those nuts for all of us,
• 49:43
  Speaker 5: and if I had been so greedy, we might all
• 49:46
  Speaker 5: have had a share. As it is, I've got only
• 49:50
  Speaker 5: those that striped Chipmunk gave me, and Chatterer has only
• 49:55
  Speaker 5: those that striped Chipmunk gave him. It must be that
• 49:59
  Speaker 5: sharp little cousin of mine with the striped coat has
• 50:03
  Speaker 5: got the rest, and I guess he deserves them. Then
• 50:07
  Speaker 5: all of a sudden, happy Jack realized how Striped Chipmunk
• 50:10
  Speaker 5: had fooled him into thinking that the storehouse of Chatterer
• 50:13
  Speaker 5: was his storehouse, and Happy Jack began to laugh. The
• 50:17
  Speaker 5: more he thought of it, the harder he laughed.
• 50:20
  Speaker 6: Ha, this joke certainly is on me.
• 50:23
  Speaker 5: Ha ha, he exclaimed, That joke is certainly on me,
• 50:27
  Speaker 5: and it serves me right here after. I'll mind my
• 50:30
  Speaker 5: own business. If I'd spent half as much time looking
• 50:33
  Speaker 5: for the hickory NaNs as I did looking for a
• 50:35
  Speaker 5: striped Chipmunk's storehouse. I'd be ready for winter now, and
• 50:40
  Speaker 5: chatter couldn't call me a thief. Then he laughed again
• 50:43
  Speaker 5: as he thought how striped Chipmunk had enjoyed seeing him
• 50:47
  Speaker 5: pulled out of Chatterer's storehouse by the tail. What's the joke,
• 50:51
  Speaker 5: asked Bobby Coon, who had happened along just then. I've
• 50:55
  Speaker 5: just learned a lesson, replied Happy Jack. What is it,
• 50:59
  Speaker 5: asked Bob. Happy Jack grinned as he answered, I have
• 51:04
  Speaker 5: found that greed will never never pay. It makes one
• 51:09
  Speaker 5: cross and ugly, and it drives one's friends away, and
• 51:13
  Speaker 5: being always selfish and always wanting more, one's very apt
• 51:17
  Speaker 5: to lose the things that one has had before pooh,
• 51:23
  Speaker 5: said Bobby Coon. Have you just found that out? I've
• 51:27
  Speaker 5: learned that a long time ago. End of chapter twelve.
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  Speaker 7: Chapter thirteen of Happy Jack. This is a LibriVox recording.
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  Speaker 7: by Linda Happy Jack by Thornton W. Burgess. Chapter thirteen,
• 52:00
  Speaker 7: Happy Jack gets a warning it matters not how smart
• 52:04
  Speaker 7: you are, so be it your heedless too. It isn't
• 52:08
  Speaker 7: what you know that counts so much as what it
• 52:11
  Speaker 7: is to you. Happy Jack. A fat gray squirrel is
• 52:15
  Speaker 7: very tempting to a number of people in the green forest,
• 52:19
  Speaker 7: particularly in winter when getting a living is hard work.
• 52:23
  Speaker 7: Almost every day, Ready and Granny Fox stole softly through
• 52:28
  Speaker 7: that part of the green forest where Happy Jack's were
• 52:31
  Speaker 7: a lived, hoping to surprise and catch him on the ground,
• 52:35
  Speaker 7: but they never did. Rough Leg the Hawk and Hooty
• 52:39
  Speaker 7: the Owl wasted a great deal of time sitting around
• 52:43
  Speaker 7: near Happy Jack's home, hoping to catch him when he
• 52:47
  Speaker 7: was not watching, but they never did. Happy Jack knew
• 52:51
  Speaker 7: all about these big, hungry neighbors, and he was always
• 52:54
  Speaker 7: on the watch for them. He knew their ways and
• 52:57
  Speaker 7: did just where they would be likely to hide. He
• 53:00
  Speaker 7: took the greatest care to look into every such hiding
• 53:04
  Speaker 7: place near at hand before he ventured down out of
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  Speaker 7: the trees. And because these hungry neighbors are so big,
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  Speaker 7: he never had any trouble in seeing them if they
• 53:14
  Speaker 7: happened to be around, so Happy Jack didn't do much
• 53:18
  Speaker 7: worrying about them. The fact is Happy Jack wasn't afraid
• 53:23
  Speaker 7: of them at all, for the simple reason that he
• 53:26
  Speaker 7: knew they couldn't follow him into his hollow tree. Having
• 53:30
  Speaker 7: nuts stored away. He would have been perfectly happy, but
• 53:34
  Speaker 7: for one thing, Yes, sir, there was only one thing
• 53:38
  Speaker 7: to spoil Happy Jack's complete happiness, and that was the
• 53:43
  Speaker 7: fear that Shadow the Weasel might take it into his
• 53:47
  Speaker 7: head to pay him a visit. Shadow can go through
• 53:50
  Speaker 7: a smaller hole than Happy Jack can, and so Happy
• 53:54
  Speaker 7: Jack knew that while he was wholly safe from his
• 53:58
  Speaker 7: other enemies, he was safe at all from Shadow the Weasel,
• 54:02
  Speaker 7: and this worried him, Yes, sir, it worried Happy Jack.
• 54:06
  Speaker 7: He hadn't seen or heard of Shadow for a long time,
• 54:11
  Speaker 7: but he had a feeling that he was likely to
• 54:14
  Speaker 7: turn up almost any time, especially now that everything was
• 54:18
  Speaker 7: covered with snow and ice and food was scarce and
• 54:21
  Speaker 7: hard to get. He sometimes actually wished that he wasn't
• 54:25
  Speaker 7: as fat as he was, then he would be less
• 54:27
  Speaker 7: tempting to his hungry neighbors. But no good comes of worrying, no, sir,
• 54:32
  Speaker 7: not a bit of good comes of worrying, and Happy
• 54:35
  Speaker 7: Jack knows it. All I can do is to watch
• 54:37
  Speaker 7: out and not be careless, said he, and drop the
• 54:40
  Speaker 7: shell of a nut on the head of Reddy Fox,
• 54:43
  Speaker 7: who happened to be passing under the tree in which
• 54:45
  Speaker 7: Happy Jack was sitting. Reddy looked up and showed his
• 54:49
  Speaker 7: teeth angrily. Happy Jack laughed and scampered away through the
• 54:53
  Speaker 7: treetops to another part of the green forest, where he
• 54:56
  Speaker 7: had some very secret stores of nuts. He was gone
• 54:59
  Speaker 7: most the day, and when he started back home, he
• 55:03
  Speaker 7: was in the best of spirits, for his stores had
• 55:06
  Speaker 7: not been found by anyone else. He was in such
• 55:10
  Speaker 7: good spirits that for once he quite forgot Shout of
• 55:13
  Speaker 7: the Weasel. He was just going to pop into his
• 55:16
  Speaker 7: doorway without first looking inside, a very foolish thing to do.
• 55:21
  Speaker 7: When he heard someone calling him. He turned to see
• 55:25
  Speaker 7: Tommy Tit the chickadee, hurrying towards him, and it was
• 55:29
  Speaker 7: very clear that Tommy was greatly excited. Hello, Tommy Tit,
• 55:33
  Speaker 7: what ails you? Exclaimed Happy Jack. Don't go in there,
• 55:35
  Speaker 7: Happy Jack, cried, Tommy Tit, Shout of the Weasel is
• 55:38
  Speaker 7: in there waiting for you. Happy Jack turned quite pale.
• 55:42
  Speaker 7: Are you sure, he gasped. Tommy Tit nodded as if
• 55:46
  Speaker 7: he would nod his head off. I saw him go
• 55:48
  Speaker 7: in there, and he hasn't come out, for I've kept watch,
• 55:51
  Speaker 7: said he you better get away from here before he
• 55:53
  Speaker 7: knows you were about. That was good advice, but it
• 55:56
  Speaker 7: was too late. Even as Tommy Tit spoke, a sharp
• 55:59
  Speaker 7: face with red angry eyes was thrust out of Happy
• 56:04
  Speaker 7: Jack's doorway. It was the face of Shadow the Weasel.
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  Speaker 7: End of chapter thirteen. Recording by Linda, Chapter fourteen of
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  Speaker 7: Happy Jack. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings
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  Speaker 7: by Thornton W. Burgess, Chapter fourteen, Happy Jack's run for life.
• 56:43
  Speaker 7: A coward he who runs away when he should stay
• 56:47
  Speaker 7: and fight. But wise is he who knows when he
• 56:50
  Speaker 7: should run with all his might, Happy Jack. It isn't
• 56:55
  Speaker 7: cowardly to run away when it is quite useless to
• 56:59
  Speaker 7: stay and fight. So it wasn't so cowardly of Happy
• 57:03
  Speaker 7: Jack Squirrel to turn tail and run the instant he
• 57:07
  Speaker 7: caught sight of Shadow the Weasel. No, sir, it wasn't
• 57:11
  Speaker 7: cowardly at all, although it might have looked so to
• 57:15
  Speaker 7: you had you been there to see. For Happy Jack
• 57:18
  Speaker 7: is bigger than Shadow, but when it comes to a fight,
• 57:22
  Speaker 7: Happy Jack is no match at all for Shadow the Weasel,
• 57:26
  Speaker 7: and he knows it. Shadow is too quick for him,
• 57:29
  Speaker 7: and though Happy Jack were ever so brave, he would
• 57:33
  Speaker 7: have no chance at all in a fight with Shadow.
• 57:37
  Speaker 7: And so the very instant he saw the cruel face
• 57:41
  Speaker 7: of Shadow with its fierce red eyes glaring at him
• 57:45
  Speaker 7: from his own doorway, Happy Jack turntail and ran. Yes, sir,
• 57:50
  Speaker 7: that is just what he did, and it was the
• 57:53
  Speaker 7: wisest thing he could have done. He hoped, with a
• 57:56
  Speaker 7: mighty hope that Shadow would not follow him, but he
• 58:00
  Speaker 7: hoped in vain. Shadow had made up his mind to
• 58:04
  Speaker 7: dine on squirrel, and he didn't propose to see his
• 58:08
  Speaker 7: dinner run away without trying to catch it. So the
• 58:12
  Speaker 7: instant Happy Jack started, Shadow started after him, stopping only
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  Speaker 7: long enough to snarl an ugly threat at Tommy Tit
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  Speaker 7: the chickadee, because Tommy had warned Happy Jack that Shadow
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  Speaker 7: was waiting for him. But Tommy didn't mind that threat.
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  Speaker 7: Oh mind, No, Tommy didn't mind it at all. He
• 58:34
  Speaker 7: can fly, and so he had no fear of Shadow
• 58:38
  Speaker 7: the Weasel, but he was terribly afraid for Happy Jack.
• 58:43
  Speaker 7: He knew, just as Happy Jack knew, that there wasn't
• 58:46
  Speaker 7: a single place where Happy Jack could hide into which
• 58:51
  Speaker 7: Shadow could not follow him. So Tommy flitted from tree
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  Speaker 7: to tree behind Happy Jack, hoping that in some way
• 59:00
  Speaker 7: he might be able to help him. From tree to
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  Speaker 7: tree raced Happy Jack, making desperately long leaps. Shadow the
• 59:08
  Speaker 7: weazl followed, and though he ran swiftly, he didn't appear
• 59:12
  Speaker 7: to be hurrying, and he took no chances on those
• 59:15
  Speaker 7: long leaps. If the leap was too long to take safely,
• 59:20
  Speaker 7: Shadow simply ran back down the tree across to the
• 59:24
  Speaker 7: next one, end up that it didn't worry him at
• 59:27
  Speaker 7: all that Happy Jack was so far ahead that he
• 59:30
  Speaker 7: was out of sight. He knew that he could trust
• 59:33
  Speaker 7: his nose to follow the scent of Happy Jack. In fact,
• 59:38
  Speaker 7: it rather pleased him to have Happy Jack race away
• 59:41
  Speaker 7: in such fright, for in that way he would soon
• 59:45
  Speaker 7: tire himself out. And this is just what Happy Jack
• 59:48
  Speaker 7: did do. He ran and jumped and jumped and ran
• 59:54
  Speaker 7: as fast as he could until he was so out
• 59:57
  Speaker 7: of breath that he just had to stop for a rest.
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 7: But he couldn't rest much. He was too terribly frightened.
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 7: He shivered and shook while he got his breath, and
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 7: never for a second did he take his eyes from
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 7: his back trail. Presently he saw a slim white form
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 7: darting along the snow, straight towards the tree in which
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 7: he was resting. Once more, Happy Jack ran, and somehow
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 7: he felt terribly helpless and hopeless. He had to rest
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 7: oftener now, and each rest was shorter than the one before,
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 7: because you know, Shadow was a less and less distance
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 7: behind poor Happy Jack. He had tried every trick he knew,
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 7: and not one of them had full shadow the weasel.
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 7: Now he was too tired to run much farther. The
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 7: last little bit of hope left Happy Jack's heart. He
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 7: blinked his eyes very fast to keep back the tears,
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 7: as he thought this was probably the last time he
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 7: would ever look at the beautiful green forest he loved.
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 7: So then he gritted his teeth and made up his
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 7: mind that anyway he would fight his best, even if
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 7: it was hopeless. It was just at that very minute
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 7: that he heard the voice of Tommy Tit the chickadee,
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 7: calling to him in great excitement, And somehow he didn't
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 7: know why a wee bit of hope sprang up in
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 7: his heart? End of chapter fourteen. Recording by Linda.
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  Speaker 4: Chapter fifteen of Happy Jack. This is a LibriVox recording.
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  Speaker 4: Jack by Thornton W. Burgess, Chapter fifteen. Who saved Happy
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 4: Jack's Squirrel? Blessed he whose words of cheer help put
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 4: hope in place of fear Happy Jack. It never has
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 4: been fully decided among the little people of the Green
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 4: forest and the green meadows just who really did save
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 4: Happy Jack's squirrel. Some say that Tommy Tit the chickadee
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 4: deserves all the credit, and some say that but wait,
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 4: let me tell you just what happened, and then perhaps
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 4: you can decide for yourself who saved Happy Jack. You see,
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 4: it was this way. Happy Jack had run and run
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 4: and run, and tried every trick he knew to get
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 4: away from Shadow the Weasel, but all in vain. At last,
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 4: he was so out of breath and so tired that
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 4: he felt that he couldn't run any more. He had
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 4: just made up his mind that he would wait right
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 4: where he was for Shadow, and then put up the
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 4: best fight he could, even if it was hopeless. When
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 4: he heard Tommy Tit calling him in great excitement. D
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 4: D chickadee, come here quick, Happy Jack, come here quick,
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 4: called Tommy Tit. A wee bit of hope sprang up
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 4: in happy Jack's heart. He couldn't imagine what possible help
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 4: Tommy Tit could be, but he would go see so,
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 4: taking a long breath, he started on as fast as
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 4: he could in the direction of Tommy's voice. He couldn't
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 4: run very fast, because you know, he was so tired,
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 4: but he did the best he could. Presently, he saw
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 4: Tommy just ahead of him, flying about in great excitement.
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 6: D D.
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  Speaker 4: There he is.
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 8: Go to him.
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 4: Go to him, Happy Jack. Hurry hurry d d oh
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 4: do hurry, cried Tommy Tit. For just a second, Happy
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 4: Jack didn't know what he meant. Then he saw Farmer
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 4: Brown's boy watching Tommy Tit as if he didn't know
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 4: what to make of the little fellow's excitement. Go to him,
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 4: Go to him, called Tommy. He won't hurt you, and
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 4: he won't let Shadow the Weasel hurt you. See me,
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 4: see me, d D see me, and with that, Tommy
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 4: tit flew right down on Farmer Brown's Boy's hand. For
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 4: you know, he and Farmer Brown's Boy are great friends.
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 4: Happy Jack hesitated. He knew that Farmer Brown's Boy had
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 4: tried to make friends with him, and every day since
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 4: the ice and snow had come had put out nuts
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 4: and corn for him. But he couldn't quite forget the
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 4: old fear of him. He couldn't quite trust him, So
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 4: now he hesitated. Then he looked back. Shadow the Weasel
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 4: was only a few jumps behind him, and his little
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 4: eyes glowed red and savage. Farmer Brown's Boy might not
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 4: hurt him, but Shadows certainly would. Shadow would kill him.
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 4: Happy Jack made up his mind, and with a little gasp,
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 4: raced madly across the snow, straight to Farmer Brown's Boy
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 4: and ran right up to his shoulder. Shadow the Weasel
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 4: had been so intent on catching Happy Jack that he
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 4: hadn't noticed Farmer Brown's Boy at all. Now he saw
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 4: him for the first time and stopped short, snarling and spitting.
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 4: Whatever else you may say of Shadow the Weasel, he
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 4: is no coward. For a minute, it looked as if
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 4: he really meant to follow Happy Jack and get him
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 4: in spite of Farmer Brown's boy, and Happy Jack trembled
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 4: as he looked down into those angry, little red eyes.
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 4: But Shadow knows when he is well off, and now
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 4: he knew better than to come a step nearer. So
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 4: he snarled and spit, and then as Farmer Brown's Boy
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 4: took a step forward, leaped to one side and disappeared
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 4: in the old stone wall. Very gently and softly, Farmer
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 4: Brown's Boy talked to Happy Jack as he took him
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 4: to the nearest tree. Then, when Happy Jack was safely
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 4: up in the tree, he went over to the stone
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 4: wall and tried to drive Shadow the weasel out. He
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 4: pulled over the stones until at last Shadow jumped out,
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 4: and then Farmer Brown's Boy chased him clear into the
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 4: green forest.
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 9: D D D, what did I tell you?
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 4: Cried Tommy Tit happily as he flew over to where
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 4: Happy Jack was sitting. Now, who really saved Happy Jack?
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 4: Tommy Tit or Farmer Brown's Boy? End of chapter fifteen.
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 4: Recording by Oma Darlan of Cincinnati, Ohio.
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 9: Chapter sixteen of Happy Jack. This is a LibriVox recording.
• 1:08:02
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• 1:08:11
  Speaker 9: by Jennifer Dorr. Happy Jack by Thornton W. Burgess, Chapter sixteen,
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 9: Happy Jack, Missus Farmer Brown's Boy. One and one are
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 9: always two, and two and two are four, and just
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 9: as true it is, you'll find that love and love
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 9: make more Happy Jack. Go ask Happy Jack squirrel. He knows.
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 9: He knows because he has proved it. It began when
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 9: Farmer Brown's Boy saved him from Shadow the Weasel. Perhaps
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 9: I should say when Farmer Brown's Boy and Tommy tit
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 9: saved him, for if it hadn't been for Tommy, it
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 9: never would have entered Happy Jack's head to run to
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 9: Farmer Brown's Boy. After that, of course, Happy Jack and
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 9: Farmer Brown's Boy became great friends. Farmer Brown's Boy came
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 9: over to the green forest every day to see Happy Jack,
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 9: and always he had the most delicious nuts in his pockets.
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 9: At first, Happy Jack had been a wee bit shy.
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 9: He couldn't quite get over that old fear he had
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 9: had so long. Then he would remember how Farmer Brown's
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 9: Boy had saved him, and that would make him ashamed
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 9: and he would walk right up and take the nuts.
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 9: Farmer Brown's Boy would talk to him in the nicest
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 9: way and tell him that he loved him, and that
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 9: there wasn't the least thing in the world to be
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 9: afraid of. Pretty soon Happy Jack began to love Farmer
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 9: Brown's Boy a little.
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 4: He couldn't help it.
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 9: He just had to love anyone who was so kind
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 9: and gentle to him. Now, as soon as he began
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 9: to love a little and felt sure in his own
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 9: heart that Farmer Brown's Boy loved him a little, he
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 9: found that love and love make more love. And it
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 9: wasn't any time at all before he had become very
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 9: fond of Farmer Brown's Boy, so fond of him that
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 9: he was almost jealous of Tom Tommy Tit, who had
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 9: been a friend of Farmer Brown's Boy for a long time.
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 9: It got so that Happy Jack looked forward each day
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 9: to that visit of Farmer Brown's Boy, and as soon
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 9: as he heard his whistle, he would hasten to meet him.
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 9: Some folks were unkind enough to say that it was
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 9: just because of the nuts and corn he was sure
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 9: to find in Farmer Brown's Boy's pockets, but that wasn't
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 9: so at all. At last, there came a day when
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 9: he missed that cheery whistle. He waited and waited. At
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 9: last he went clear to the edge of the green forest,
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 9: but there was no whistle and no sign of Farmer
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 9: Brown's boy. It was the same way the next day
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 9: and the next. Happy Jack forgot to frisk about the
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 9: way he usually does. He lost his appetite. He just
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 9: sat around and moped. When Tommy Tit the Chickadee came
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 9: to call, as he did every day, Happy Jack found
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 9: that Tommy Tit was anxious too. Tommy had been up
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 9: to Farmer Brown's dooryard several times and he hadn't seen
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 9: anything of Farmer Brown's boy. I think he must have
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 9: gone away, said Tommy. He would have come down here
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 9: first and said goodbye, replied Happy Jack. You you don't
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 9: suppose something has happened to him, do you, asked Tommy.
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 9: I don't know. I don't know what to think, replied
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 9: Happy Jack soberly. Do you know, Tommy, I have grown
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 9: very fond of Farmer Brown's boy. Of course, d D D.
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 9: Of course everybody who really knows him is fond of him.
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  Speaker 9: I've said all along that he is the best friend
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 9: we've got, but no one seemed to believe me. I'm
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 9: glad you found it out for yourself. I tell you what,
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 9: I'll go up to his house and have another look around.
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 9: And without waiting for a reply, Tommy was off as
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 9: fast as his little wings could take him. I hope,
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 9: I do hope that nothing has happened to him, mumbled
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 9: Happy Jack as he pretended to hunt for buried nuts
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 9: while he waited for Tommy Tit to come back, and
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 9: by him he meant farmer Brown's boy. End of chapter sixteen.
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 9: Chapter seventeen of Happy Jack. This is a LibriVox recording.
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  Speaker 9: by Jennifer Dorr. Happy Jack by Thornton W. Burgess. Chapter seventeen,
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 9: Tommy Tit brings news. No one knows too much, but
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 9: many know too little. Happy Jack. Happy Jack very plainly
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 9: was not happy. His name was the only happy thing
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 9: about him. He fussed about. On the edge of the
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 9: green forest, he just couldn't keep still. When he thought
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 9: anybody was looking, he pretended to hunt for some of
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 9: the nuts he had buried in the fall and dug
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 9: holes down through the snow. But as soon as he
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 9: thought that no one was watching, he would scamper up
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 9: a tree where he could look over to Farmer Brown's
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 9: house and look and look. It was very clear that
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 9: Happy Jack was watching for some one, and that he
• 1:13:19
  Speaker 9: was anxious, very anxious. Indeed, it was getting late in
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 9: the afternoon, and soon the black shadows would begin to
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 9: creep out from the purple hills behind which Jolly round
• 1:13:31
  Speaker 9: Red mister Sun would go to bed. It would be
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 9: bedtime for Happy Jack then, for you know, he goes
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 9: to bed very early, just as soon as it begins
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 9: to get dark. The later it got, the more anxious
• 1:13:45
  Speaker 9: and uneasy Happy Jack grew. He had just made up
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 9: his mind that in a few minutes he would have
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 9: to give up and go to bed. When there was
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 9: a flit of tiny wings and Tommy tit. The chickadee
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 9: dropped into the tree beside him. Did you find out anything,
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 9: asked Happy Jack eagerly, before Tommy had a chance to
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 9: say a word. Tommy nodded, He's there, He panted, for
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 9: he was quite out of breath from hurrying so where
• 1:14:13
  Speaker 9: Happy Jack fairly shouted the question over there in the house,
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 9: replied Tommy, tit. Then, he hasn't gone away. It's just
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 9: as I said. He hasn't gone away, cried Happy Jack,
• 1:14:26
  Speaker 9: and he was so relieved that he jumped up and down,
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 9: and as a result nearly tumbled out of the tree. No,
• 1:14:33
  Speaker 9: replied Tommy, he hasn't gone away, but I think there
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 9: is something the matter with him. Happy Jack grew very sober.
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 9: What makes you think, so, he demanded, If you'll give
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 9: me time to get my breath, i'll tell you all
• 1:14:47
  Speaker 9: about it, retorted Tommy. Tit all right, only please hurry,
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 9: replied Happy Jack, and tried to look patient, even if
• 1:14:56
  Speaker 9: he wasn't. Tommy Tit smoothed out some rumpled and was
• 1:15:00
  Speaker 9: most provokingly slow about it. When I left here, he
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 9: began at last. I flew straight up to Farmer Brown's house,
• 1:15:09
  Speaker 9: as I said I would. I flew all around it,
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 9: but all I saw was that horrid black pussy on
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 9: the back door steps, and she looked at me so
• 1:15:18
  Speaker 9: hungrily that she made me dreadfully uncomfortable. I don't see
• 1:15:23
  Speaker 9: what Farmer Brown keeps her about for anyway, Never mind
• 1:15:27
  Speaker 9: her go on, interrupted Happy Jack. Then I flew all
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 9: around the barn, but I didn't see any one there
• 1:15:34
  Speaker 9: but that ugly little upstart bully, the English sparrow, and
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 9: he wanted to pick a fight with me right away.
• 1:15:41
  Speaker 9: Tommy looked very indignant. Never mind him, go on, cried
• 1:15:46
  Speaker 9: Happy Jack. Impatiently. After that, I flew back to the
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 9: big maple tree close by the house, continued Tommy. You know,
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  Speaker 9: Farmer Brown's boy is kept a piece of suet tied
• 1:15:57
  Speaker 9: in that tree all winter for me. I was hungry,
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  Speaker 9: and I thought I would get a bite to eat,
• 1:16:03
  Speaker 9: but there wasn't any suet there. That pig of a
• 1:16:07
  Speaker 9: Sammy Jay had managed to get it untied and had
• 1:16:09
  Speaker 9: carried it all away. Of course, that made me angry
• 1:16:13
  Speaker 9: and twice as hungry as before. I was trying to
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 9: make up my mind what to do next, when I
• 1:16:19
  Speaker 9: happened to look over on the window sill. And what
• 1:16:22
  Speaker 9: do you think I saw there? What, demanded Happy Jack eagerly.
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  Speaker 9: A lot of cracked hickory nuts, declared Tommy. I just
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 9: knew that they were meant for me, And when I
• 1:16:33
  Speaker 9: was sure that the way was clear, I flew over there.
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  Speaker 9: They tasted so good that I almost forgot about Farmer
• 1:16:40
  Speaker 9: Brown's boy when I just happened to look in the window.
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  Speaker 9: You know, those windows are made of some queer stuff
• 1:16:47
  Speaker 9: that looks like ice and isn't, and that you can
• 1:16:49
  Speaker 9: see right through. Happy Jack didn't know, for he never
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 9: had been near enough to see. But he nodded and
• 1:16:56
  Speaker 9: Tommy Tit went on. There were many queer things inside,
• 1:17:00
  Speaker 9: and I was wondering what they could be. When all
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 9: of a sudden I saw him. He was lying down,
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  Speaker 9: and there was something the matter with him. I tapped
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  Speaker 9: on the window to him, and then I hurried back here.
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  Speaker 9: End of chapter seventeen.
• 1:17:23
  Speaker 8: Chapter eighteen of Happy Jack. This is a LibriVox recording.
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• 1:17:37
  Speaker 8: Jack by Thornton W. Borgis Chapter eighteen. Happy Jack decides
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 8: to make a call. You'll find when all is said
• 1:17:46
  Speaker 8: and done, two heads are better than one. Happy Jack.
• 1:17:54
  Speaker 8: Happy Jack Square hadn't slept very well. He had had
• 1:17:58
  Speaker 8: bad dreams. Ever, so many times in the night he
• 1:18:01
  Speaker 8: had waked up, a very unusual thing for Happy Jack.
• 1:18:05
  Speaker 8: The fact is he had something on his mind. Yes, Sir,
• 1:18:10
  Speaker 8: Happy Jack had something on his mind, and that something
• 1:18:14
  Speaker 8: was Farmer Brown's Boy. He often had had Farmer Brown's
• 1:18:18
  Speaker 8: Ball on his mind before, but in a very different
• 1:18:21
  Speaker 8: way then it had been in the days when Farmer
• 1:18:25
  Speaker 8: Brown's Boy hunted through the green forest and over the
• 1:18:28
  Speaker 8: green meadows with the strible gun. Then everybody had Farmer
• 1:18:32
  Speaker 8: Brown's Boy on their minds. Most of the time, Happy
• 1:18:36
  Speaker 8: Jack had hated him, then hated him because he had
• 1:18:40
  Speaker 8: feared him. He no, fear almost always leads to hate.
• 1:18:45
  Speaker 8: But now it was different. Farmer Brown's Ball had put
• 1:18:49
  Speaker 8: away his terrible gun. Happy Jack no longer feared him.
• 1:18:53
  Speaker 8: Love had taken the place of hate in his heart.
• 1:18:56
  Speaker 8: For had not. Farmer Brown's Boy saved him from Shadow
• 1:18:59
  Speaker 8: the Weasel and brought him nuts and corns when food
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 8: was scarce. And now Tommy Tit had brought word that
• 1:19:06
  Speaker 8: something was the matter with Farmer Brown's Boy. It was
• 1:19:10
  Speaker 8: this that was on Happy Jack's mind and had given
• 1:19:13
  Speaker 8: him such a bad night. As soon as it was daylight,
• 1:19:18
  Speaker 8: Happy Jack scrumbled out of bed to look for Tommy Tit.
• 1:19:22
  Speaker 8: He didn't have long to wait for Tommy is quite
• 1:19:25
  Speaker 8: as early a riser as Happy Jack. D dee chick
• 1:19:29
  Speaker 8: a deee. I hope you feel as well as me,
• 1:19:33
  Speaker 8: sang Tommy merrily as he fleeted over to where Happy
• 1:19:36
  Speaker 8: Jack was looking for his breakfast. The very sound of
• 1:19:40
  Speaker 8: Tommy's voice made Happy Jack feel better. One must feel
• 1:19:44
  Speaker 8: very badly indeed, not to be a little more cheerful
• 1:19:48
  Speaker 8: when Tommy tit is about the facts. Tommy Tit packs
• 1:19:52
  Speaker 8: about so much good cheer in that small person of
• 1:19:55
  Speaker 8: his that no one can be down hearted when he
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  Speaker 8: is about Hello, Tomy, said Happy Jack. If I could
• 1:20:03
  Speaker 8: make other people feel as good as you do, do
• 1:20:06
  Speaker 8: you know what I would do? What, asked Tommy, I'd
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  Speaker 8: go straight up to Farmer Brown's house and try to
• 1:20:13
  Speaker 8: cheer up Farmer Brown's boy, replied Happy Jack, It's the
• 1:20:18
  Speaker 8: very thing I have in mind, chuckled Tommy. I've come
• 1:20:22
  Speaker 8: over here to see if you won't come along with me.
• 1:20:25
  Speaker 8: I've been up to his house so often that he
• 1:20:28
  Speaker 8: won't think half so much of a visit from me
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 8: as he will from you. Will you do it? Happy
• 1:20:34
  Speaker 8: Jack looked a little startled. You see, he never had
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 8: been over to Farmer Brown's house and Somehow, he couldn't
• 1:20:41
  Speaker 8: get over the idea that it would be a very
• 1:20:44
  Speaker 8: dangerous thing to do. I do you really suppose I could,
• 1:20:52
  Speaker 8: he asked. I'm sure of it, replied Tommy Tit. There's
• 1:20:57
  Speaker 8: no one to be afraid of but black pussy and
• 1:20:59
  Speaker 8: bozzered hound, and it's easy enough to keep out of
• 1:21:02
  Speaker 8: their way. He can hide in the old stone wall
• 1:21:05
  Speaker 8: until the way's clear, and then run across the big
• 1:21:08
  Speaker 8: maple tree close to the house. Then you can look
• 1:21:11
  Speaker 8: right in and see Farmer Brown's boy, and he can
• 1:21:13
  Speaker 8: look out and see you. Will you do it? Happy
• 1:21:18
  Speaker 8: Jack thought very hard for a few minutes. Then he
• 1:21:22
  Speaker 8: made up his mind. I'll do it, he said, in
• 1:21:26
  Speaker 8: a very decided tone of voice. He's start right away.
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  Speaker 8: Good for you, d D good for you, cried Tommy
• 1:21:36
  Speaker 8: Tit and started to lead away. End of chapter eighteen.
• 1:21:49
  Speaker 8: Chapter nineteen of Happy Jack. This is a LibriVox recording.
• 1:21:53
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• 1:22:02
  Speaker 8: Jack by Thornton W. Borgis Chapter nineteen. Tom Tit and
• 1:22:07
  Speaker 8: Happy Jack pay a visit as grows the mighty elm
• 1:22:11
  Speaker 8: tree from just a tiny seed. So often great things
• 1:22:14
  Speaker 8: happen from just a kindly deed. Happy Jack, great things
• 1:22:20
  Speaker 8: were happening to Happy Jack Squirrele. He was actually on
• 1:22:23
  Speaker 8: his way to Farmer Brown's house, and he had a
• 1:22:26
  Speaker 8: feeling that other things were likely to happen when he
• 1:22:28
  Speaker 8: got there. Now, you may not think that it was
• 1:22:32
  Speaker 8: anything very great that Happy Jack should be on his
• 1:22:34
  Speaker 8: way to Farmer Brown's house. Very likely you are saying, pooh,
• 1:22:39
  Speaker 8: that's nothing. This may be true, and then again it
• 1:22:44
  Speaker 8: may not. Suppose you do a little supposing suppose he
• 1:22:49
  Speaker 8: had all your life been terribly afraid of a great
• 1:22:52
  Speaker 8: giant fifty times bigger than you. Suppose that great giant
• 1:22:57
  Speaker 8: had stopped hunting you, and by little das of kindness
• 1:23:01
  Speaker 8: had at last won your love. Suppose you learned that
• 1:23:05
  Speaker 8: something was the matter with him, and you made up
• 1:23:07
  Speaker 8: your mind to visit him at his great castle, where
• 1:23:10
  Speaker 8: there were other great giants whom he did not know.
• 1:23:14
  Speaker 8: Wouldn't you think that great things were happening to you? Well,
• 1:23:17
  Speaker 8: that is exactly the way it was with Happy Jack
• 1:23:20
  Speaker 8: the squirrel. As he and Tommy Tit the chickadee started
• 1:23:23
  Speaker 8: to go over to Farmer Brown's house to look for
• 1:23:26
  Speaker 8: Farmer Brown's boy. Tommy Tit had been there often, so
• 1:23:30
  Speaker 8: he didn't think anything about it. But Happy Jack never
• 1:23:34
  Speaker 8: had been there, and if the truth were known, his
• 1:23:37
  Speaker 8: heart was going pick a pat with excitement and perhaps
• 1:23:40
  Speaker 8: just a little fear. Through the old orchard they went,
• 1:23:45
  Speaker 8: Tommy Tit flitting ahead and keeping a sharp watch for danger.
• 1:23:49
  Speaker 8: When they reached the old stone wall on the edge
• 1:23:52
  Speaker 8: of Farmer Brown's dooryard, Tommy Tit told Happy Chak to
• 1:23:56
  Speaker 8: hide there while he went to see if the way
• 1:23:58
  Speaker 8: was clear. He was back in a few minutes. D D.
• 1:24:03
  Speaker 8: Everything is all right, he said, Bolster the hound is
• 1:24:06
  Speaker 8: eating his breakfast out back where he can't see you
• 1:24:09
  Speaker 8: at all, and that pussy is nowhere about. All you
• 1:24:13
  Speaker 8: have to do is to follow me over to that
• 1:24:15
  Speaker 8: big tree close to the house, and I will show
• 1:24:17
  Speaker 8: you where Farmer Brown's boy is. I'm afraid, confessed Happy Jack. Booh,
• 1:24:27
  Speaker 8: there's nothing to be afraid of, asserted Domitit in the
• 1:24:31
  Speaker 8: most positive way. Don't be a coward. Remember how Farmer
• 1:24:35
  Speaker 8: Brown's voice save you from shadow to whizzle. Come on,
• 1:24:39
  Speaker 8: d d D, Come on with that Tommy flock across
• 1:24:43
  Speaker 8: to the tree close by the house. Happy Jack scrambled
• 1:24:47
  Speaker 8: up on the old stone wall and looked this way
• 1:24:49
  Speaker 8: and looked that way. He couldn't see a thing to
• 1:24:52
  Speaker 8: be afraid of. He jumped down and run a few steps.
• 1:24:56
  Speaker 8: Then his heart failed and his comfored back to the
• 1:24:58
  Speaker 8: old stone wall in a panic. After a few minutes
• 1:25:01
  Speaker 8: he tried again, and once more a foolish fear sent
• 1:25:04
  Speaker 8: him back. The third time, he greeted his teeth, said
• 1:25:07
  Speaker 8: to himself over and over, I will, I will, I will,
• 1:25:13
  Speaker 8: and run with all his might. In no time at all,
• 1:25:16
  Speaker 8: he was across the door yard and up in the
• 1:25:18
  Speaker 8: big tree, his heart pounding with excitement. D D de
• 1:25:24
  Speaker 8: called Tommy tit. Happy Jack looked over to the house,
• 1:25:28
  Speaker 8: and there sat Tommy on the window sill, helping himself
• 1:25:31
  Speaker 8: to the most delicious looking crack. Not the sight of
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  Speaker 8: them made Happy Jack's mouth water. A long brunch hung
• 1:25:40
  Speaker 8: down over the window and almost touched the sail. Happy
• 1:25:43
  Speaker 8: Jack ventured half way and stopped. Somehow, it seemed very
• 1:25:48
  Speaker 8: dangerous to go so close to that window. Come on,
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  Speaker 8: come on, what are you afraid of? Called Tommy, something
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  Speaker 8: like shame that's such a little fellow as stony teeth
• 1:26:02
  Speaker 8: should dare to go where he did not crept into
• 1:26:05
  Speaker 8: Happy Jack's heart. With a quick little run and a jump,
• 1:26:09
  Speaker 8: he was on the seal, and a second later who
• 1:26:11
  Speaker 8: was staring in at all the strange things inside? At
• 1:26:16
  Speaker 8: first he didn't see anything of Farmer Brown's boy. But
• 1:26:19
  Speaker 8: in a few minutes he made him out. He was
• 1:26:23
  Speaker 8: lying down or covered over except his head. There was
• 1:26:27
  Speaker 8: something the matter with him. Happy Jack didn't need to
• 1:26:30
  Speaker 8: be told that, and a great pity filled his heart.
• 1:26:35
  Speaker 8: He wanted to do something for Farmer Brown's boy. End
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  Speaker 8: Happy Jack by Thornton W. Boorgies, Chapter twenty. What was
• 1:27:10
  Speaker 8: the matter with Farmer Brown's Boy? He who climbs the
• 1:27:14
  Speaker 8: highest has the farthest to fall, but often it is
• 1:27:18
  Speaker 8: worth the risk, Happy Jack. All the way home from
• 1:27:24
  Speaker 8: his visit to Farmer Brown's house, Happy Jack Squirrel puzzled
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  Speaker 8: and wondered over what he had seen. He had peeped
• 1:27:31
  Speaker 8: in at a window and seen Farmer Brown's boy lying
• 1:27:34
  Speaker 8: all covered up, with only his head showing. Happy Jack
• 1:27:38
  Speaker 8: couldn't see very well, but somehow that head didn't look
• 1:27:42
  Speaker 8: just right. One thing was sure, and that was there
• 1:27:45
  Speaker 8: was something wrong with Farmer Brown's boy. He never would
• 1:27:49
  Speaker 8: have been lying still like that if there hadn't been.
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  Speaker 8: Happy Jack had been so troubled by what he saw
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  Speaker 8: that he hardly tasted the nuts he had found on
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  Speaker 8: the window sill. I'm going to make him another call tomorrow,
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  Speaker 8: said he, and he and Tommy Tit were once more
• 1:28:06
  Speaker 8: back in the green forest, of course, replied Tommy. I
• 1:28:11
  Speaker 8: expect you will. I will be around for you at
• 1:28:14
  Speaker 8: the same time. You're not afraid any more to go
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  Speaker 8: up there, are you? No, replied Happy Jack slowly. The
• 1:28:25
  Speaker 8: truth is he was still a little afraid. It seemed
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  Speaker 8: to him a terribly venturesome thing to cross that open
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  Speaker 8: door yard, but having done it once in safety, he
• 1:28:36
  Speaker 8: knew that it would be easier the next time it was.
• 1:28:40
  Speaker 8: The next morning, he and Tommy Tit went just as before,
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  Speaker 8: and this time Happy Jack scampered across the dooryard the
• 1:28:47
  Speaker 8: very first time he tried. They found things just as
• 1:28:51
  Speaker 8: they had been the day before. They saw Farmer Brown's boy,
• 1:28:54
  Speaker 8: but he didn't see them. Tommy Tit was just going
• 1:28:58
  Speaker 8: to tap on the window to let him know they
• 1:28:59
  Speaker 8: were there, when a door inside opened and in walked
• 1:29:04
  Speaker 8: Missus Brown. It frightened them so that Tommy Tit flew
• 1:29:08
  Speaker 8: away without tasting a single knot, and Happy Jack nearly
• 1:29:12
  Speaker 8: fell as he scrambled back into the tree close by
• 1:29:14
  Speaker 8: the window. You see, they never had made her acquaintance,
• 1:29:19
  Speaker 8: and having her walk in so suddenly frightened them terribly.
• 1:29:24
  Speaker 8: They didn't stop to think that there was nothing to
• 1:29:26
  Speaker 8: fear because there was the window between Somehow, they couldn't
• 1:29:30
  Speaker 8: understand the queer stuff that they could see through, but
• 1:29:33
  Speaker 8: which shut them out. If they had seen Missus Brown
• 1:29:37
  Speaker 8: go to the window and put more crack nuts on
• 1:29:39
  Speaker 8: the sill, perhaps they would have been less afraid, But
• 1:29:43
  Speaker 8: they had been too badly frightened to look back, and
• 1:29:46
  Speaker 8: so they didn't know anything about that. The next morning,
• 1:29:51
  Speaker 8: tomm Tit was on hand as usual, but he found
• 1:29:54
  Speaker 8: Happy Jack a little doubtful about paying another visit. He
• 1:29:59
  Speaker 8: wasn't wholely over his care of the day before. It
• 1:30:03
  Speaker 8: took him some time to make up his mind to go,
• 1:30:06
  Speaker 8: But finally he did this time. When they reached the
• 1:30:10
  Speaker 8: tree close by the house, they found a great surprise
• 1:30:13
  Speaker 8: awaiting them. Farmer Brown's boy was sitting just inside the window,
• 1:30:17
  Speaker 8: looking out. At least they thought it was Farmer Brown's boy,
• 1:30:21
  Speaker 8: but when they got a little nearer they grew doubtful.
• 1:30:25
  Speaker 8: It looked like Farmer Brown's boy. And yet it didn't.
• 1:30:29
  Speaker 8: His cheeks stuck way out, as as striped chipmunks do
• 1:30:32
  Speaker 8: when he has them stuff full of corn or knots.
• 1:30:36
  Speaker 8: Happy Chuck stared at him very hard. My goodness, I
• 1:30:40
  Speaker 8: didn't know he carried his food that way, he exclaimed.
• 1:30:44
  Speaker 8: I should think it would be dreadfully uncomfortable. If Farmer
• 1:30:49
  Speaker 8: Brown's boy could have heard that, he certainly would have
• 1:30:52
  Speaker 8: tried to laugh. And if he had, well, it was
• 1:30:55
  Speaker 8: bad enough. When he tried to smile at the sight
• 1:30:58
  Speaker 8: of Tommy Tit and Happy Jack, he didn't smile at all,
• 1:31:02
  Speaker 8: but made up an awful face instead and cut both
• 1:31:05
  Speaker 8: hands to his cheeks. Happy Jack and Tommy they didn't
• 1:31:09
  Speaker 8: know what to make of it, and twas some time
• 1:31:12
  Speaker 8: before they made up their minds that it really was
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  Speaker 8: Farmer Brown's boy, and that they had nothing to fear.
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  Speaker 8: But when they finally ventured on to the seal, and
• 1:31:22
  Speaker 8: as they helped themselves, the nuts saw the smile in
• 1:31:25
  Speaker 8: his eyes. Though he did not smile with the smile
• 1:31:28
  Speaker 8: at all, they knew that it was he, and that
• 1:31:31
  Speaker 8: he was glad that they had called. Then they were
• 1:31:35
  Speaker 8: glad too, But what was the matter with Farmer Brown's boy?
• 1:31:40
  Speaker 8: Happy Jack pastled over at all the rest of the day,
• 1:31:43
  Speaker 8: and then gave it up. End of Chapter twenty.
• 1:31:55
  Speaker 3: Chapter twenty one of Happy Jack. This is a LibriVox recording.
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  Speaker 3: by Denise Nordal. Happy Jack by Thornton W. Burgess, Chapter
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  Speaker 3: twenty one, Happy Jack's squirrel grows very bold. When you
• 1:32:17
  Speaker 3: find a friend in trouble, pass along a word of cheer.
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  Speaker 3: Often it is very helpful just to feel a friend
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  Speaker 3: is near Happy Jack. Every day Happy Jack visited the
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  Speaker 3: window sill of Farmer Brown's house to call on Farmer
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  Speaker 3: Brown's boy, who was always waiting for him just inside
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  Speaker 3: the window. In fact, Happy Jack had got into the
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  Speaker 3: habit of getting his breakfast there. For always there were fat,
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  Speaker 3: delicious nuts on the windowsill, and it was much easier
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  Speaker 3: and more comfortable to breakfast there than to hunt up
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  Speaker 3: his own hidden supplies and perhaps have to dig down
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  Speaker 3: through the snow to get them. Most people are just
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  Speaker 3: like Happy Jack. They do the easiest thing. Each day,
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  Speaker 3: Farmer Brown's Boy looked more and more like himself. His
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  Speaker 3: cheeks stuck out less and less, and finally did not
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  Speaker 3: stick out at all. And now he smiled at Happy
• 1:33:01
  Speaker 3: Jack with his mouth as well as with his eyes,
• 1:33:04
  Speaker 3: you know, when his cheeks had stuck out so he
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  Speaker 3: couldn't smile at all except with his eyes. Happy Jack
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  Speaker 3: didn't know what had been the matter with Farmer Brown's Boy,
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  Speaker 3: but whatever it was, he was better now, and that
• 1:33:14
  Speaker 3: made Happy Jack feel better. One morning, he got a
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  Speaker 3: surprise when he ran out along the branch of the
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  Speaker 3: tree that led to the window sill. He suddenly discovered
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  Speaker 3: something wrong. There were no nuts on the sill. More
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  Speaker 3: than this, there was something very suspicious looking about the window.
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  Speaker 3: It didn't look just right. The truth is it was
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  Speaker 3: partly open. But Happy Jack didn't understand this, not then anyway,
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  Speaker 3: He stuck short and scolded away he has when things
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  Speaker 3: don't suit him. Farmer Brown's boy came to the window
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  Speaker 3: and called to him. Then he thrust a hand out,
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  Speaker 3: and in it were some of the fattest nuts Happy
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  Speaker 3: Jack ever had seen. His mouth watered right away. There
• 1:33:49
  Speaker 3: might be something wrong with the window, but certainly the
• 1:33:51
  Speaker 3: sill was all right. It would do no harm to
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  Speaker 3: go that far, so Happy Jack nimbly jumped across to
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  Speaker 3: the window sill. Farmer Brown's Boy's hand with the fat
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  Speaker 3: nuts was still there, and Happy Jack lost no time
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  Speaker 3: in getting one. Then he sat up on the sill
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  Speaker 3: to eat it my bed. It was good. It was
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  Speaker 3: just as good as it had looked. Happy Jack's eyes
• 1:34:09
  Speaker 3: twinkled as he ate. When he had finished that nut.
• 1:34:12
  Speaker 3: He wanted another, But now Farmer Brown's boy had drawn
• 1:34:15
  Speaker 3: his hand inside the window. He was still holding it
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  Speaker 3: out with the nuts in it. But to get them,
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  Speaker 3: Happy Jack must go inside, and he couldn't get it
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  Speaker 3: out of his head that that was a very dangerous
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  Speaker 3: thing to do. What if that window should be closed
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  Speaker 3: while he was in there, then he would be a prisoner.
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  Speaker 3: So he sat up and begged. He knew that Farmer
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  Speaker 3: Brown's Boy knew what he wanted, but Farmer Brown's Boy
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  Speaker 3: kept his hand just where it was. Come on, you,
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  Speaker 3: little rascal, said he You ought to know me well
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  Speaker 3: enough by this time to know that I won't hurt
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  Speaker 3: you or let any harm come to you. Hurry up,
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  Speaker 3: because I can't stand here all day. You see, I've
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  Speaker 3: just got over the mumps, and if I should catch cold,
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  Speaker 3: I might be sick again. Come along now and show
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  Speaker 3: how brave you are. Of course, happy Jack couldn't understand
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  Speaker 3: what he said. If he could have, he might have
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  Speaker 3: guessed that it was the mumps that had made Farmer
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  Speaker 3: Brown's Boy looked so like striped chipmunk when he had
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  Speaker 3: his cheeks stuffed with nuts. But if he couldn't understand
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  Speaker 3: what Farmer Brown's Boy said, he had no difficulty in
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  Speaker 3: understanding that if he wanted those nuts, he would have
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  Speaker 3: to go after them. So at last he screwed up
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  Speaker 3: his courage and put his head inside. Nothing happened, so
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  Speaker 3: he went wholly in and sat on the inside sill. Then,
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  Speaker 3: by reaching out as far as he could without tumbling off,
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  Speaker 3: he managed to get one of those nuts, and as
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  Speaker 3: soon as he had it, he dodged outside to eat it.
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  Speaker 3: Farmer Brown's boy laughed, and putting the rest of the
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  Speaker 3: nuts outside, he closed the window. Happy Jack ate his
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  Speaker 3: fill and then scampered back to the green forest. He
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  Speaker 3: felt all puffed up with pride. He felt that he
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  Speaker 3: had been very, very bold, and he was anxious to
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  Speaker 3: tell Tommy Tip, the chickadee, who had not been with
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  Speaker 3: him that morning, how bold he had been. Pooh, that's nothing,
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  Speaker 3: replied Tommy when he had heard it. I've done that often.
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  Speaker 3: End of chapter twenty one. Recording by Denise nor del Modesto, California.
• 1:36:01
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  Speaker 3: by Denise Nordal Happy Jack by Thornton W. Burgess, Chapter
• 1:36:17
  Speaker 3: twenty two, Happy Jack dares Tommy tit. A wise philosopher
• 1:36:22
  Speaker 3: is he who takes things as they chance to be,
• 1:36:24
  Speaker 3: and in them sees that which is best. While trying
• 1:36:26
  Speaker 3: to forget the rest, Happy Jack. Somehow Happy Jack's day
• 1:36:31
  Speaker 3: had been spoiled. He knew that he had no business
• 1:36:33
  Speaker 3: to allow it. To be spoiled. But it was just
• 1:36:35
  Speaker 3: the same. You see. He had been all puffed up
• 1:36:38
  Speaker 3: with pride because he thought himself a very bold fellow.
• 1:36:41
  Speaker 3: Because he had really been inside Farmer Brown's house. He
• 1:36:44
  Speaker 3: couldn't help feeling quite puffed up about it. But when
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  Speaker 3: he told Tommy Tit the Chickadee about it, Tommy had said, pooh,
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  Speaker 3: I've done that often. That was what had spoiled the
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  Speaker 3: day for Happy Jack. He knew that if Tommy Tit
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  Speaker 3: said that he had done a thing, he had for
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  Speaker 3: Tommy always tells the truth and nothing but the trie
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  Speaker 3: so Happy Jack hadn't been so dreadfully bold after all,
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  Speaker 3: and he had nothing to brag about. It made him
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  Speaker 3: feel quite put out. He actually tried to make himself
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  Speaker 3: feel that it was all the fault of Tommy Tit
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  Speaker 3: and that he wanted to get even with him. He
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  Speaker 3: thought about it all the rest of the day, and
• 1:37:15
  Speaker 3: just before he fell asleep that night, an idea came
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  Speaker 3: to him. I know what I'll do. I'll dare Tommy
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  Speaker 3: to go as far inside Farmer Brown's house as I do,
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  Speaker 3: he exclaimed, and went to sleep to dream that he
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  Speaker 3: was the boldest bravest squirrel that ever lived. The next morning,
• 1:37:30
  Speaker 3: when he reached the tree close by Farmer Brown's house,
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  Speaker 3: he found Tommy Tit already there, flitting about impatiently and
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  Speaker 3: calling his loudest, which wasn't very loud, for you know,
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  Speaker 3: Tommy is a very little fellow, and his voice is
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  Speaker 3: not very loud, but he was doing his best to
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  Speaker 3: call Farmer Brown's boy. You see, there wasn't a single
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  Speaker 3: nut on the window sill, and the window was closed.
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  Speaker 3: Pretty soon Farmer Brown's boy came to the window and
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  Speaker 3: opened it, but he didn't put out any nuts. Tommy
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  Speaker 3: Tit at once flew over to the sill, and to
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  Speaker 3: show that he was just as bold, Happy Jack followed.
• 1:37:59
  Speaker 3: Looking inside, they saw Farmer Brown's boy standing in the
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  Speaker 3: middle of the room, holding out a dish of nuts
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  Speaker 3: and smiling at them. This was the chance Happy Jack
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  Speaker 3: wanted to try the plan he had thought of the
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  Speaker 3: night before. I dare you to go away in there
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  Speaker 3: and get a nut, said he to Tommy Tit. He
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  Speaker 3: hoped that Tommy would be afraid, but Tommy wasn't anything
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  Speaker 3: of the kind. Dee dee dee, come on, he cried
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  Speaker 3: and flitted over and helped himself to a cracked nut,
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  Speaker 3: and was back with it before Happy Jack could make
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  Speaker 3: up his mind to jump down inside. Of course, now
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  Speaker 3: that he had dared Tommy Tit and Tommy had taken
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  Speaker 3: the dare, he just had to do it too. It
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  Speaker 3: looked a long way into where Farmer Brown's boy was standing.
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  Speaker 3: Twice he started and turned back. Then he heard Tommy
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  Speaker 3: Tit chuckle. That was too much. He wouldn't be laughed at,
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  Speaker 3: He just wouldn't. He scampered across, grabbed a nut, and
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  Speaker 3: rushed back to the window sill, where he ate the nut.
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  Speaker 3: It was easier to go after the second nut, and
• 1:38:51
  Speaker 3: when he went for the third, he had made up
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  Speaker 3: his mind that it was perfectly safe in there, and
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  Speaker 3: so he sat up on a chair and ate it. Presently,
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  Speaker 3: he felt quite at home, and when he had eaten
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  Speaker 3: all the nuts he wanted, he ran all around the room,
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  Speaker 3: examining all the strange things there. This was a little
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  Speaker 3: more than Tommy Tit could make up his mind to do.
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  Speaker 3: He wasn't afraid to fly in for a nut and
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  Speaker 3: then fly out again, but he couldn't feel easy inside
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  Speaker 3: a house like that. Of course, this made Happy Jack
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  Speaker 3: feel good all over. You see, he felt that now
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  Speaker 3: he really did have something to boast about. No one
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  Speaker 3: in all the green forest or on the green meadows
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  Speaker 3: could say that they had been all over Farmer Brown's
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  Speaker 3: boy's room as he had. Happy Jack swelled himself out
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  Speaker 3: at the thought. Now everybody would say, what a bold fellow.
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  Speaker 3: End of chapter twenty two. Recording by Denise Nordell, Modesto, California.
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  Speaker 3: by Denise Nordell Jack by Thornton W. Burgess, Chapter twenty three.
• 1:40:03
  Speaker 3: Sammy Jay is quite upset. I know of nothing sweeter
• 1:40:07
  Speaker 3: than success to Squirrel or to man happy Jack. Very
• 1:40:12
  Speaker 3: few people can be all puffed up with pride without
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  Speaker 3: showing it. Happy Jack Squirrel couldn't. Just to have looked
• 1:40:17
  Speaker 3: at him, you would have known that he was feeling very,
• 1:40:20
  Speaker 3: very good about something. When he thought no one was looking,
• 1:40:23
  Speaker 3: he would actually strut. And it was all because he
• 1:40:25
  Speaker 3: considered himself a very bold fellow. That was a new
• 1:40:29
  Speaker 3: feeling for happy Jack. He knew that all his neighbors
• 1:40:31
  Speaker 3: considered him rather timid, and many a time he had envied,
• 1:40:34
  Speaker 3: actually envied, Jimmy Skunk and Reddy Fox and unc Billy
• 1:40:38
  Speaker 3: Possum and even Sammy Jay because they did such bold things,
• 1:40:41
  Speaker 3: and had dared to visit Farmer Brown's dooryard and hen
• 1:40:44
  Speaker 3: house in spite of Bowser the Hound. But now he
• 1:40:47
  Speaker 3: felt that he dared to do a thing that not
• 1:40:49
  Speaker 3: one of them dared do. He dared go right into
• 1:40:51
  Speaker 3: Farmer Brown's house and make himself quite at home in
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  Speaker 3: the room of Farmer Brown's boy. He felt that he
• 1:40:57
  Speaker 3: was a tremendously brave fellow. You see, he forgot one thing.
• 1:41:01
  Speaker 3: He forgot that he had found out that love destroys fear,
• 1:41:04
  Speaker 3: and that though it might look to others like a
• 1:41:06
  Speaker 3: very bold thing to walk right into Farmer Brown's house,
• 1:41:09
  Speaker 3: it really wasn't bold at all, because all the time
• 1:41:12
  Speaker 3: he knew that no harm would come to him. It
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  Speaker 3: is never brave to do a thing that you are
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  Speaker 3: not afraid to do. It had been brave of him
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  Speaker 3: to go in at that open window the first time,
• 1:41:21
  Speaker 3: because then he had been afraid. But now he wasn't afraid,
• 1:41:24
  Speaker 3: and so it was no longer either brave or bold
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  Speaker 3: of him. Tommy tit. The chickadee knew all this, and
• 1:41:29
  Speaker 3: he used to chuckle to himself as he saw how
• 1:41:31
  Speaker 3: proud of himself Happy Jack was, But he said nothing
• 1:41:34
  Speaker 3: to any one about it. Of course, it wasn't long
• 1:41:36
  Speaker 3: before others began to notice Happy Jack's pride. One of
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  Speaker 3: the first was Sammy Jay. There is very little that
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  Speaker 3: escapes Sammy Jay's sharp eyes. Silently stealing through the green
• 1:41:46
  Speaker 3: forest early one morning, he surprised Happy Jack's strutting. Huh,
• 1:41:50
  Speaker 3: he said, what are you feeling so big about? Like
• 1:41:53
  Speaker 3: a flash, the thought came to Happy Jack that here
• 1:41:56
  Speaker 3: was a chance to show what a bold fellow he
• 1:41:58
  Speaker 3: had become. Hello, Sammy, he exclaimed, are you feeling very
• 1:42:01
  Speaker 3: brave this morning?
• 1:42:03
  Speaker 8: Me?
• 1:42:03
  Speaker 3: Feeling brave? What are you talking about? If I was
• 1:42:06
  Speaker 3: as timid as you are, I wouldn't ever talk about
• 1:42:08
  Speaker 3: bravery to other people. If there is anything you dare
• 1:42:11
  Speaker 3: to do that I don't, I've never heard of it,
• 1:42:13
  Speaker 3: retorted Sammy Jay. Come on, cried Happy Jack. I'm going
• 1:42:16
  Speaker 3: to get my breakfast, and I dare you to follow me.
• 1:42:19
  Speaker 3: Sammy Jay actually laughed right out. Go ahead, wherever you go,
• 1:42:23
  Speaker 3: I'll go, he declared. Happy Jack started right away for
• 1:42:26
  Speaker 3: Farmer Brown's house, and Sammy followed through the old orchard,
• 1:42:30
  Speaker 3: across the door yard and into the big maple tree.
• 1:42:32
  Speaker 3: Happy Jack led the way, and Sammy followed, all the
• 1:42:35
  Speaker 3: time wondering what was up. He had been there many times.
• 1:42:39
  Speaker 3: In fact, he had had many a good meal of
• 1:42:41
  Speaker 3: suet there during the cold weather, for Farmer Brown's boy
• 1:42:44
  Speaker 3: had kept a big piece tied to a branch of
• 1:42:46
  Speaker 3: the maple tree for those who were hungry. Sammy was
• 1:42:49
  Speaker 3: a little surprised when he saw Happy Jack jump over
• 1:42:52
  Speaker 3: on to the window sill. Still, he had been on
• 1:42:54
  Speaker 3: that window sill more than once himself, when he had
• 1:42:56
  Speaker 3: made sure that no one was near, and had helped
• 1:42:59
  Speaker 3: himself to the cracked he had found there. Come on,
• 1:43:02
  Speaker 3: called Happy Jack, his eyes twinkling. Sammy Jay chuckled. He
• 1:43:06
  Speaker 3: thinks I don't dare go over there, he thought, well,
• 1:43:08
  Speaker 3: I'll fool him. With a hasty look to see that
• 1:43:11
  Speaker 3: no danger was near, he spread his wings to follow
• 1:43:13
  Speaker 3: Happy Jack on to the window sill. Happy Jack waited
• 1:43:17
  Speaker 3: to make sure that he really was coming, and then
• 1:43:18
  Speaker 3: slipped in at the open window and scampered over to
• 1:43:21
  Speaker 3: a table on the farther side of the room and
• 1:43:23
  Speaker 3: helped himself from a dish of nuts. There. When Sammy
• 1:43:26
  Speaker 3: saw Happy Jack disappear inside, he gave a little gasp.
• 1:43:29
  Speaker 3: When he looked inside and saw Happy Jack making himself
• 1:43:32
  Speaker 3: quite at home, he gasped again. And when he saw
• 1:43:35
  Speaker 3: a door open and Farmer Brown's boy enter, and still
• 1:43:37
  Speaker 3: Happy Jack did not run, he was too upset for words.
• 1:43:41
  Speaker 3: He didn't dare stay to see more, and for once
• 1:43:43
  Speaker 3: in his life, was quite speechless as he flew back
• 1:43:46
  Speaker 3: to the green forest. End of chapter twenty three. Recording
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  Speaker 3: by Denise Nordell, Modesto, California.
• 1:43:58
  Speaker 6: Chapter twenty four of Happy Jack. This is a LibriVox recording.
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  Speaker 6: by Bethjoy, Detroit, Michigan. Happy Jack by Thornton W. Burgess,
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  Speaker 6: Chapter twenty four, A dream comes true? What are all
• 1:44:20
  Speaker 6: our dreams made up of? That? They often are so
• 1:44:23
  Speaker 6: queer wishes, hopes, and fond desires, all mixed up with foolish,
• 1:44:27
  Speaker 6: fears Happy Jack. Which is worse to have a very
• 1:44:32
  Speaker 6: beautiful dream never come true, or to have a bad
• 1:44:35
  Speaker 6: dream really come true? Happy Jack Squirrel says the latter
• 1:44:39
  Speaker 6: is worse, much worse. Dreams do come true once in
• 1:44:43
  Speaker 6: a great while, you know, one of Happy Jack's did.
• 1:44:47
  Speaker 6: It came true, and it made a great difference in
• 1:44:50
  Speaker 6: Happy Jack's life. You'll see. It was like this. Happy
• 1:44:55
  Speaker 6: Jack had had so many things to think of that
• 1:44:58
  Speaker 6: he had almost forgotten about Shadow the Weasel. Happy Jack
• 1:45:02
  Speaker 6: hadn't seen or heard anything from him since Farmer Brown's
• 1:45:04
  Speaker 6: Boy had chased him into the green forest and so
• 1:45:07
  Speaker 6: saved Happy Jack's life. Since then, life had been too
• 1:45:11
  Speaker 6: full of pleasant things to think of anything so unpleasant
• 1:45:14
  Speaker 6: as Shadow the Weasel. But one night Happy Jack had
• 1:45:18
  Speaker 6: a bad dream, Sir, Yes, sir, it was a very
• 1:45:21
  Speaker 6: bad dream. He dreamed that once more, Shadow the Weasel
• 1:45:25
  Speaker 6: was after him, and this time there was no Farmer
• 1:45:28
  Speaker 6: Brown's Boy to run to for help. Shadow was right
• 1:45:32
  Speaker 6: at his heels and in one more jump would have him.
• 1:45:36
  Speaker 6: Happy Jack opened his mouth to scream and awoke. He
• 1:45:41
  Speaker 6: was all a shake with fright. It was a great
• 1:45:43
  Speaker 6: relief to find that it was only a dream, but
• 1:45:46
  Speaker 6: even then he couldn't get over it right away. He
• 1:45:50
  Speaker 6: was glad that it was almost morning, and just as
• 1:45:52
  Speaker 6: soon as it was light enough to see, he crept out.
• 1:45:56
  Speaker 6: It was too early to go over to Farmer Brown's house.
• 1:45:59
  Speaker 6: Farmer Brown's boy wouldn't be up yet, so Happy Jack
• 1:46:02
  Speaker 6: ran over to one of his favorite lookouts, a tall
• 1:46:05
  Speaker 6: chestnut tree, and there, with his back against the trunk,
• 1:46:08
  Speaker 6: high above the ground, he watched the green forest wake
• 1:46:12
  Speaker 6: as the first sunbeams stole through it. But all the
• 1:46:16
  Speaker 6: time he kept thinking of that dreadful dream. A little
• 1:46:21
  Speaker 6: spot of black moving against the white snow caught his
• 1:46:23
  Speaker 6: sharp eyes.
• 1:46:25
  Speaker 9: What was it?
• 1:46:26
  Speaker 6: He leaned forward and held his breath as he tried
• 1:46:28
  Speaker 6: to make sure. Ah, now he could see just ahead
• 1:46:33
  Speaker 6: of that black thing was a long, slim fellow, all
• 1:46:37
  Speaker 6: in white, and that black spot was his tail. If
• 1:46:41
  Speaker 6: it hadn't been for that, Happy Jack very likely wouldn't
• 1:46:44
  Speaker 6: have seen him at all. It was Shadow the weasel.
• 1:46:47
  Speaker 6: He was running swiftly, first to one side, then to
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  Speaker 6: the other, with his nose to the snow. He was hunting,
• 1:46:54
  Speaker 6: there was no doubt about it. He was hunting for
• 1:46:57
  Speaker 6: his breakfast. Happy Jack's eyes grew wide with fear. Would
• 1:47:01
  Speaker 6: Shadow find his tracks. It looked very much as if
• 1:47:04
  Speaker 6: Shadow was heading for Happy Jack's house, and Happy Jack
• 1:47:07
  Speaker 6: was glad, very glad that that bad dream had waked
• 1:47:10
  Speaker 6: him and made him so uneasy that he had come out,
• 1:47:13
  Speaker 6: Otherwise he might have been caught right in his own bed.
• 1:47:17
  Speaker 6: Shadow was almost at Happy Jack's house when he stopped
• 1:47:20
  Speaker 6: abruptly with his nose to the snow, and sniffed eagerly.
• 1:47:23
  Speaker 6: Then he turned and, with his nose to the snow,
• 1:47:25
  Speaker 6: started straight towards the tree where Happy Jack was. Happy
• 1:47:29
  Speaker 6: Jack waited to see no more. He knew now that
• 1:47:31
  Speaker 6: Shadow had found his trail, and that it would be
• 1:47:34
  Speaker 6: a case of run for his life. My dream has
• 1:47:37
  Speaker 6: come true, he sobbed as he ran. My dream has
• 1:47:40
  Speaker 6: come true. And I don't know what to do. But
• 1:47:43
  Speaker 6: all the time he kept on running as fast as
• 1:47:45
  Speaker 6: ever he could, which really was the only thing to do.
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  Speaker 6: End of chapter twenty four. Recording by Bethjoy, Detroit, Michigan,
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  Speaker 6: Chapter twenty five of Happy Jack. This is a LibriVox recording.
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  Speaker 6: by Bethjoy, Detroit, Michigan. Happy Jack by Thornton W. Burgess,
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  Speaker 6: Chapter twenty five. Happy Jack has a happy thought who
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  Speaker 6: runs when danger comes his way, will live to run
• 1:48:25
  Speaker 6: some other day. Happy Jack frightened and breathless, running with
• 1:48:30
  Speaker 6: all his might from Shadow the Weasel, Happy Jack Squirrel
• 1:48:33
  Speaker 6: was in despair. He didn't know what to do or
• 1:48:36
  Speaker 6: where to go. The last time he had run from Shadow,
• 1:48:40
  Speaker 6: he had run to Farmer Brown's Boy, who had just
• 1:48:42
  Speaker 6: happened to be near, and Farmer Brown's Boy had chased
• 1:48:45
  Speaker 6: Shadow the Weasel away. But now it was too early
• 1:48:49
  Speaker 6: in the morning for him to expect to meet Farmer
• 1:48:51
  Speaker 6: Brown's boy. In fact, Jolly round Red Mister Sun had
• 1:48:56
  Speaker 6: hardly kicked his bedclothes off yet, and Happy Jack was
• 1:49:00
  Speaker 6: very sure that Farmer Brown's Boy was still asleep. Now,
• 1:49:03
  Speaker 6: most of us are creatures of habit. We do the
• 1:49:06
  Speaker 6: thing that we have been in the habit of doing,
• 1:49:09
  Speaker 6: and do it without thinking about doing it. That is
• 1:49:12
  Speaker 6: why good habits are such a blessing. Happy Jack Squirrel
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  Speaker 6: is just like the rest of us. He has habits,
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  Speaker 6: both good and bad. Of late. He has been in
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  Speaker 6: the habit of getting his breakfast at Farmer Brown's house
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  Speaker 6: every morning, So now when he began to run from
• 1:49:29
  Speaker 6: Shadow the Weasel, he just naturally ran in the direction
• 1:49:31
  Speaker 6: of Farmer Brown's house from the force of habit. In fact,
• 1:49:35
  Speaker 6: he was half way there before he realized in which
• 1:49:38
  Speaker 6: direction he was running. Right then a thought came to him.
• 1:49:42
  Speaker 6: It gave him a wee bit of hope and seemed
• 1:49:44
  Speaker 6: to help him run just a little faster. If the
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  Speaker 6: window of Farmer brown Boy's room was open, he would
• 1:49:50
  Speaker 6: run in there, and perhaps Shadow the Weasel wouldn't dare follow.
• 1:49:55
  Speaker 6: How he did hope that that window would be open.
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  Speaker 6: He knew that it was his only chance. He wasn't
• 1:50:00
  Speaker 6: quite sure that it really was a chance, for Shadow
• 1:50:04
  Speaker 6: was such a bold fellow that he might not be
• 1:50:06
  Speaker 6: afraid to follow him right in, but it was worth trying.
• 1:50:11
  Speaker 6: Along the stone wall beside the old orchard, raced Happy
• 1:50:14
  Speaker 6: Jack to the doorway of Farmer Brown, and after him
• 1:50:18
  Speaker 6: ran Shadow the Weasel. And Shadow looked as if he
• 1:50:21
  Speaker 6: was enjoying himself. No doubt he was. He knew just
• 1:50:25
  Speaker 6: as well as Happy Jack did that there was small
• 1:50:28
  Speaker 6: chance of meeting Farmer Brown's boy so early in the morning,
• 1:50:31
  Speaker 6: so he felt very sure how that chase was going
• 1:50:35
  Speaker 6: to end, and that when it did, and he would
• 1:50:38
  Speaker 6: breakfast on Squirrel. By the time Happy Jack reached the doorway,
• 1:50:43
  Speaker 6: Shadow was only a few jumps behind him, and Happy
• 1:50:46
  Speaker 6: Jack was pretty well out of breath. He didn't stop
• 1:50:49
  Speaker 6: to look to see if the way was clear. There
• 1:50:51
  Speaker 6: wasn't time for that. Besides, there could be no greater
• 1:50:55
  Speaker 6: danger in front than was almost at his heels, and
• 1:50:57
  Speaker 6: so without looking one way or another, he scampered across
• 1:51:01
  Speaker 6: the dooryard and up the big maple tree close to
• 1:51:03
  Speaker 6: the house. Shadow the Weasel was surprised. He had not
• 1:51:07
  Speaker 6: dreamed that Happy Jack would come over here. But Shadow
• 1:51:11
  Speaker 6: was a bold fellow and it made little difference to
• 1:51:13
  Speaker 6: him where Happy Jack went. At least that's what he thought,
• 1:51:19
  Speaker 6: so he followed Happy Jack across the dooryard and up
• 1:51:21
  Speaker 6: the maple tree. He took his time about it, for
• 1:51:24
  Speaker 6: he knew by the way Happy Jack had run that
• 1:51:26
  Speaker 6: he was pretty near at the end of his strength.
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  Speaker 6: He'll never get out of this tree, thought Shadow as
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  Speaker 6: he started to climb it. He fully expected to find
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  Speaker 6: Happy Jack hoddled in a miserable little heap somewhere near
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  Speaker 6: the top. Just imagine how surprised he was when he
• 1:51:41
  Speaker 6: discovered that Happy Jack wasn't to be seen. He rubbed
• 1:51:44
  Speaker 6: his angry little red eyes and they grew angrier and
• 1:51:48
  Speaker 6: redder than before. Must be a hollow up here somewhere,
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  Speaker 6: he muttered. I'll just follow the scent of his feet,
• 1:51:54
  Speaker 6: and that will lead me to him. But when that
• 1:51:58
  Speaker 6: scent led him out on a brain the tip of
• 1:52:01
  Speaker 6: wish brushed against Farmer Brown's house, Shadow got another surprise.
• 1:52:05
  Speaker 6: There was no sign of Happy Jack. He couldn't have
• 1:52:08
  Speaker 6: reached the roof. There was no place he could have
• 1:52:11
  Speaker 6: gone unless Shadow stared across at the window open about
• 1:52:16
  Speaker 6: two inches. He couldn't have, muttered Shadow, he wouldn't dare.
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  Speaker 6: He couldn't have. But Happy Jack had he had gone
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  Speaker 6: inside that window. End of chapter twenty five. Recording by Bethjoy, Detroit, Michigan.
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  Speaker 9: by Jennifer Door, Happy Jack by Thornton W. Burgess, twenty six.
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  Speaker 9: Farmer Brown's Boy wakes with a start. Never think another
• 1:53:06
  Speaker 9: crazy just because it happens. You never have heard of
• 1:53:10
  Speaker 9: just the thing that they have started out to do.
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  Speaker 9: Happy Jack, isn't it queer? How hard it seems to
• 1:53:18
  Speaker 9: be for some boys to go to bed at the
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  Speaker 9: proper time, and how much harder it is for them
• 1:53:23
  Speaker 9: to get up in the morning. It was just so
• 1:53:25
  Speaker 9: with Farmer Brown's boy. I suppose he wouldn't have been
• 1:53:28
  Speaker 9: a real boy if it hadn't been so. Of course,
• 1:53:32
  Speaker 9: while he was sick with the mumps, he didn't have
• 1:53:34
  Speaker 9: to get up, and while he was getting over the mumps,
• 1:53:37
  Speaker 9: his mother let him sleep as long as he wanted
• 1:53:39
  Speaker 9: to in the morning. That was very nice, but it
• 1:53:42
  Speaker 9: made it all the harder to get up when he
• 1:53:44
  Speaker 9: should after he was well again. In summer it wasn't
• 1:53:48
  Speaker 9: so bad getting up early. But in winter, well, that
• 1:53:53
  Speaker 9: was the one thing about winter that Farmer Brown's Boy
• 1:53:55
  Speaker 9: didn't like. On this particular morning, Farmer Brown had called,
• 1:54:00
  Speaker 9: and he had replied with a sleepy all right, and
• 1:54:05
  Speaker 9: then had rolled over and promptly gone to sleep again.
• 1:54:08
  Speaker 9: In two minutes, he was dreaming just as if there
• 1:54:10
  Speaker 9: were no such things as duties to be done. For
• 1:54:14
  Speaker 9: a while, they were very pleasant dreams, very pleasant indeed,
• 1:54:18
  Speaker 9: But suddenly they changed. A terrible monster was chasing him.
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  Speaker 9: It had great red eyes as big as saucers, and
• 1:54:26
  Speaker 9: sparks of fire flew from its mouth. It had great
• 1:54:29
  Speaker 9: claws as big as ice tongs, and it roared like
• 1:54:32
  Speaker 9: a lion. In his dream, Farmer Brown's boy was running
• 1:54:36
  Speaker 9: with all his might. Then he tripped and fell, and
• 1:54:40
  Speaker 9: somehow he couldn't get up again. The terrible monster came
• 1:54:44
  Speaker 9: nearer and nearer. Farmer Brown's Boy tried to scream and couldn't.
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  Speaker 9: He was so frightened that he had lost his voice.
• 1:54:52
  Speaker 9: The terrible monster was right over him now and reached
• 1:54:55
  Speaker 9: out one of his huge paws. With the great claws,
• 1:54:59
  Speaker 9: one of them touched him on the cheek, and it
• 1:55:01
  Speaker 9: burned like fire. With a yell, a real genuine yell,
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  Speaker 9: Farmer Brown's Boy awoke and sprang out of bed. For
• 1:55:09
  Speaker 9: a minute, he couldn't think where he was. Then, with
• 1:55:12
  Speaker 9: a sigh of relief, he realized that he was safe
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  Speaker 9: in his own snug little room, with the first jolly
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  Speaker 9: little sunbeam creeping in at the window to wish him
• 1:55:22
  Speaker 9: good morning and chid him for being such a lazy fellow.
• 1:55:25
  Speaker 9: A thump and a scurry of little feet caught his attention.
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  Speaker 9: He turned to see a gray squirrel running for the
• 1:55:31
  Speaker 9: open window. It jumped up on the sill, looked out,
• 1:55:34
  Speaker 9: then jumped down inside again, and ran over to a
• 1:55:37
  Speaker 9: corner of the room, where he crouched as if in
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  Speaker 9: great fear. It was clear that he had been badly
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  Speaker 9: frightened by the yell of Farmer Brown's Boy, and that
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  Speaker 9: he was still more frightened by something he had seen.
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  Speaker 9: When he looked out of the window, A great light
• 1:55:51
  Speaker 9: broke over Farmer Brown's boy. Happy Jack, you little rascal.
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  Speaker 9: I believe you are the terrible monster that scared me,
• 1:55:58
  Speaker 9: so he exclaimed. I believe you were on my bed,
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  Speaker 9: and that it was your claws that I felt on
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  Speaker 9: my face.
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  Speaker 8: But what ails you?
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  Speaker 9: You look frightened almost to death. He went over to
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  Speaker 9: the window and looked out. A movement in the big
• 1:56:12
  Speaker 9: maple tree just outside caught his attention. He saw a long, slim,
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  Speaker 9: white form dart down the tree and disappear.
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  Speaker 4: He knew who it was.
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  Speaker 9: It was Shadow the weasel, so that pesky weasel has
• 1:56:25
  Speaker 9: been after you again, and you came to me for help,
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  Speaker 9: he said gently as he coaxed Happy Jack to come
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  Speaker 9: to him. This is the place to come to every time,
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  Speaker 9: poor little chap, you're all of a tremble. I guess
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  Speaker 9: I know how you feel when a weasel is after you.
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  Speaker 9: I guess you feel just as I felt when I
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  Speaker 9: dreamed that that monster was after me. My, but you
• 1:56:46
  Speaker 9: certainly did give me a scare when you touched my face.
• 1:56:50
  Speaker 9: He gently stroked Happy Jack as he talked, and Happy
• 1:56:53
  Speaker 9: Jack led him breakfast. Called a voice from downstairs coming,
• 1:56:59
  Speaker 9: replied Farmer Brown Boy, as he put Happy Jack on
• 1:57:01
  Speaker 9: the table by a dish of nuts and began to
• 1:57:04
  Speaker 9: scramble into his clothes. End of chapter twenty six.
• 1:57:14
  Speaker 1: Chapter twenty seven of Happy Jack. This is a LibriVox recording.
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  Speaker 1: by Kaina Praira. Happy Jack by Thornton W. Burgess, Chapter
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  Speaker 1: twenty seven, Happy Jack is afraid to go home. Safety
• 1:57:42
  Speaker 1: first is the best rule to ensure a long life,
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  Speaker 1: Happy Jack. Happy Jack didn't dare go home. Can you
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  Speaker 1: think of anything more dreadful than to be afraid to
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  Speaker 1: go to your own home? Why home is the dearest
• 1:57:59
  Speaker 1: place in the world, and it should be the safest.
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  Speaker 1: Just think how you would feel if you should be
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  Speaker 1: away from home, and then you should learn that it
• 1:58:08
  Speaker 1: wouldn't be safe for you to go back there again,
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  Speaker 1: and you had no other place to go. It often
• 1:58:15
  Speaker 1: happens that way with the little people of the green
• 1:58:18
  Speaker 1: meadows and the green forest. It was that way with
• 1:58:22
  Speaker 1: Happy Jack squirrel. Now you see, Happy Jack knew that
• 1:58:26
  Speaker 1: Shadow the Whizzle is not one to give up easily.
• 1:58:30
  Speaker 1: Shadow has one very good trait, and that is persistence.
• 1:58:35
  Speaker 1: Is not easily discouraged. When he sets out to do
• 1:58:39
  Speaker 1: a thing, usually he does it. If he starts to
• 1:58:43
  Speaker 1: get a thing, usually he gets it. No, he isn't
• 1:58:48
  Speaker 1: easily discouraged. Happy Jack knows this. No one knows it better.
• 1:58:55
  Speaker 1: So Happy Jack didn't dare to go home. He knew
• 1:58:58
  Speaker 1: that any minute of night or day, Shadow might surprise
• 1:59:02
  Speaker 1: him there, and that would.
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  Speaker 6: Be the end of him.
• 1:59:06
  Speaker 1: He more than half suspected that Shadow was at that
• 1:59:09
  Speaker 1: very time hiding somewhere along the way, ready to spring
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  Speaker 1: out on him if he should try to go back home.
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  Speaker 1: He had stayed in the room of Farmer Brown's boy
• 1:59:20
  Speaker 1: until Missus Brown had come to make the bed. Then
• 1:59:24
  Speaker 1: he had jumped out the window into the big maple tree.
• 1:59:28
  Speaker 1: He wasn't quite sure of Missus Brown yet. She had
• 1:59:31
  Speaker 1: kindly eyes. They were just like the eyes of Farmer
• 1:59:35
  Speaker 1: Brown's boy. But he didn't feel really acquainted yet, and
• 1:59:38
  Speaker 1: he felt safer outside then inside the room while.
• 1:59:42
  Speaker 4: She was there.
• 1:59:44
  Speaker 1: Oh dear, oh dear, what shall I do? I have
• 1:59:47
  Speaker 1: no home, and so to keep me warm and snug
• 1:59:50
  Speaker 1: and safe, I have no place to go. Happy Jack
• 1:59:54
  Speaker 1: said this over and over as he sat in the
• 1:59:57
  Speaker 1: maple tree, trying to decide what was to be he done.
• 2:00:01
  Speaker 1: I wonder what ails that squirrel. It seems to be
• 2:00:04
  Speaker 1: doing a lot of scolding, said Missus Brown as she
• 2:00:07
  Speaker 1: looked out of the window. And that shows how easy
• 2:00:11
  Speaker 1: it is to misunderstand people when we don't know all
• 2:00:14
  Speaker 1: about their affairs. Missus Brown thought that Happy Jack was scolding,
• 2:00:19
  Speaker 1: when all the time he was just frightened and worried
• 2:00:22
  Speaker 1: and wondering where he could go and what he could
• 2:00:25
  Speaker 1: do to feel safe from shadow of the whissel. Because
• 2:00:29
  Speaker 1: he didn't dare to go back to the green forest,
• 2:00:31
  Speaker 1: he spent most of the day in the big mapple
• 2:00:33
  Speaker 1: tree close to Farmer Brown's house. The window had been closed,
• 2:00:38
  Speaker 1: so he couldn't go inside. He looked at it longingly
• 2:00:42
  Speaker 1: a great many times during the day, hoping that he
• 2:00:45
  Speaker 1: would find it open, But it didn't. You see, it
• 2:00:50
  Speaker 1: was opened only at night when Farmer Brown's boy went
• 2:00:53
  Speaker 1: to bed, so that he would have plenty of fresh
• 2:00:56
  Speaker 1: air all night. Of course, Happy Jack didn't know that
• 2:01:00
  Speaker 1: ally's life. He had had plenty of fresh air all
• 2:01:03
  Speaker 1: the time, and he couldn't understand how people could live
• 2:01:06
  Speaker 1: in houses all shut up. Late that afternoon, Farmer Brown's boy,
• 2:01:12
  Speaker 1: who had been at school all day, came whistling into
• 2:01:15
  Speaker 1: the yard. He noticed Happy Jack right away. Hello, you
• 2:01:20
  Speaker 1: back again. Isn't one good meal a day enough, he exclaimed.
• 2:01:26
  Speaker 1: He's been there all day, said his mother, who had
• 2:01:29
  Speaker 1: come to the door just in time to overhear him.
• 2:01:32
  Speaker 1: I don't know what ails him. The Farmer Brown's boy
• 2:01:35
  Speaker 1: noticed how forlorn Happy Jack looked. He remembered Happy Jack's
• 2:01:40
  Speaker 1: fright that morning. I know what's the matter, he cried,
• 2:01:44
  Speaker 1: It's their whistle. The poor little chap is afraid to
• 2:01:47
  Speaker 1: go home. We must see what we can do for him.
• 2:01:51
  Speaker 1: I wonder if you will stay by, make him a
• 2:01:53
  Speaker 1: new house for him. I believe I'll try it and
• 2:01:55
  Speaker 1: see end of chapter twenty seven. Recording by Karina Praira.
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  Speaker 1: Chapter twenty eight of Happy Jack. This is a LibriVox recording.
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  Speaker 1: by Kaarina Praira. Happy Jack by Thornton W. Burgess, Chapter
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  Speaker 1: twenty eight. Happy Jack finds a new home. They say
• 2:02:37
  Speaker 1: the very darkest clouds aligned with silver, bright and fair.
• 2:02:42
  Speaker 1: Though how they know I do not see, and neither
• 2:02:45
  Speaker 1: do I really care. It's good to believe, and so
• 2:02:49
  Speaker 1: I try to believe this is true with all my might,
• 2:02:54
  Speaker 1: that nothing is so seeming dark but has a hidden
• 2:02:58
  Speaker 1: side that's bright. Happy Jack. Certainly things couldn't look much
• 2:03:06
  Speaker 1: darker than they did to Happy Jack Squirrel as he
• 2:03:09
  Speaker 1: sat in the big mapple tree at the side of
• 2:03:12
  Speaker 1: Farmer Brown's house and saw Jolly round red mister Sun
• 2:03:17
  Speaker 1: getting ready to go to bed behind the purple hills.
• 2:03:21
  Speaker 1: He was afraid to go to his home in the
• 2:03:23
  Speaker 1: green forest, because Shadow the Whistle might be waiting for
• 2:03:26
  Speaker 1: him there. He was afraid of the night which would
• 2:03:30
  Speaker 1: soon come. He was cold, and he was hungry. Altogether,
• 2:03:36
  Speaker 1: it was as miserable a little squirrel as ever was seen.
• 2:03:41
  Speaker 1: He had just made up his mind that he would
• 2:03:43
  Speaker 1: have to go look for a hollow in one of
• 2:03:46
  Speaker 1: the trees in the old orchard in which to spend
• 2:03:49
  Speaker 1: the night, when around the corner of the house came
• 2:03:52
  Speaker 1: Farmer Brown's Boy with something under one arm and dragging
• 2:03:56
  Speaker 1: a lather. He whistled cheerily to Happy Jack as he
• 2:04:01
  Speaker 1: put the ladder against a tree and climbed up. By
• 2:04:04
  Speaker 1: this time, Happy Jack had grown so timid that he
• 2:04:07
  Speaker 1: was just a little afraid of Farmer Brown's Boy, So
• 2:04:11
  Speaker 1: he climbed as high up in the tree as he
• 2:04:13
  Speaker 1: could get and watched what was going on below. Even
• 2:04:18
  Speaker 1: if he was afraid, there was comfort in having Farmer
• 2:04:21
  Speaker 1: Brown's Boy near. For some time, Farmer Brown's Boy worked
• 2:04:26
  Speaker 1: busily at the place where the branch that Happy Jack
• 2:04:29
  Speaker 1: knew so well started out from the trunk of the
• 2:04:32
  Speaker 1: tree towards the window of Farmer Brown's Boy's room. When
• 2:04:37
  Speaker 1: he had fixed things to suit him, he went down
• 2:04:40
  Speaker 1: the ladder and carried it away with him. In the
• 2:04:44
  Speaker 1: crutch of the tree. He had left the queer thing
• 2:04:47
  Speaker 1: that he had brought under his arm. In spite of
• 2:04:51
  Speaker 1: his fears, Happy Jack was curious. Little by little, he
• 2:04:55
  Speaker 1: crept nearer. What he saw was a box with a
• 2:04:59
  Speaker 1: round hole just about big enough for him to go
• 2:05:02
  Speaker 1: through in one end, and in front of it a
• 2:05:05
  Speaker 1: little shelf. On the shelf were some of the nuts
• 2:05:09
  Speaker 1: that he liked best. For a long time, Happy Jack
• 2:05:13
  Speaker 1: looked and looked. Was it a trap? Somehow, he couldn't
• 2:05:18
  Speaker 1: believe that it was. What would Farmer Brown's Boy try
• 2:05:21
  Speaker 1: to trap him for when they were such good friends.
• 2:05:25
  Speaker 1: At last, the sight of the nuts was too much
• 2:05:28
  Speaker 1: for him. It certainly was safe enough to help himself
• 2:05:31
  Speaker 1: to those, how good they tasted. Almost before he knew it,
• 2:05:36
  Speaker 1: they were gone. Then he got up courage enough to
• 2:05:39
  Speaker 1: peep inside. The box was filled with soft hay. It
• 2:05:45
  Speaker 1: certainly did look inviting in them to a fellow who
• 2:05:48
  Speaker 1: had no home and no place to go. He put
• 2:05:52
  Speaker 1: his head inside. Finally he went wholly in. It was
• 2:05:58
  Speaker 1: just as nice as it looked. I believe, thought Happy Jack,
• 2:06:03
  Speaker 1: that he made this little house just for me, and
• 2:06:07
  Speaker 1: that he put all this hay in here for my bed.
• 2:06:10
  Speaker 1: He doesn't know much about making a bed, but I
• 2:06:13
  Speaker 1: guess he means well.
• 2:06:15
  Speaker 6: With that.
• 2:06:16
  Speaker 1: He went to work happily to make up a bed
• 2:06:19
  Speaker 1: to suit him. And by the time the first black
• 2:06:21
  Speaker 1: shadow had crept as far as the big mapple Tree,
• 2:06:25
  Speaker 1: Happy Jack was curled up fast asleep in his new house.
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  Speaker 1: End of chapter twenty eight. Recording by Kaarina Braida.
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  Speaker 9: Chapter twenty nine of Happy Jack. This is a LibriVox recording.
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  Speaker 9: by Jennifer Dore. Happy Jack by Thornton W. Burgess, Chapter
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  Speaker 9: twenty nine. Farmer Brown's Boy takes a prisoner. The craftiest
• 2:07:06
  Speaker 9: and cleverest, the strongest in the bold will make mistakes
• 2:07:10
  Speaker 9: like other folks, young, middle aged and old. Happy Jack.
• 2:07:15
  Speaker 9: Happy Jack's squirrel was happy once more. He liked his
• 2:07:18
  Speaker 9: new house, the house that Farmer Brown's Boy had made
• 2:07:21
  Speaker 9: for him, and fastened in the big maple tree close
• 2:07:23
  Speaker 9: by the house in which he himself lived. Happy Jack
• 2:07:27
  Speaker 9: and Farmer Brown's Boy were getting to be greater friends
• 2:07:29
  Speaker 9: than ever. Every morning, Happy Jack jumped over to the
• 2:07:33
  Speaker 9: window sill and then in at the open window of
• 2:07:35
  Speaker 9: the room of Farmer Brown's Boy. There he was sure
• 2:07:38
  Speaker 9: to find a good breakfast of fat hickory nuts. When
• 2:07:42
  Speaker 9: Farmer Brown's Boy overslept, as he did, sometimes Happy Jack
• 2:07:46
  Speaker 9: would jump up on the bed and waken him. He
• 2:07:48
  Speaker 9: thought this great fun. So did Farmer Brown's Boy, though
• 2:07:52
  Speaker 9: sometimes when he was very sleepy he pretended to scold,
• 2:07:55
  Speaker 9: especially on Sunday mornings when he did not have to
• 2:07:58
  Speaker 9: get up as early as on other days. Of course,
• 2:08:01
  Speaker 9: Black Pussy had soon discovered that Happy Jack was living
• 2:08:04
  Speaker 9: in the big maple tree, and she spent a great
• 2:08:06
  Speaker 9: deal of time sitting at the foot of it and
• 2:08:08
  Speaker 9: glaring up at him with a hungry look in her eyes,
• 2:08:11
  Speaker 9: although she wasn't hungry at all, for she had plenty
• 2:08:14
  Speaker 9: to eat. Several times she climbed up in the tree
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  Speaker 9: and tried to catch him. At first, he had been afraid,
• 2:08:20
  Speaker 9: but he soon found out that Black Pussy was not
• 2:08:23
  Speaker 9: at all at home in a tree as he was.
• 2:08:26
  Speaker 9: After that, he rather enjoyed having her try to catch him.
• 2:08:29
  Speaker 9: It was almost like a game. It was great fun
• 2:08:32
  Speaker 9: to scold at her and let her get very near him,
• 2:08:34
  Speaker 9: and then just as she was sure that she was
• 2:08:37
  Speaker 9: going to catch him, to jump out of her reach.
• 2:08:40
  Speaker 9: After a while, she was content to sit at the
• 2:08:42
  Speaker 9: foot of the tree and just glare at him. Happy
• 2:08:45
  Speaker 9: Jack had only one worry now, and this didn't trouble
• 2:08:48
  Speaker 9: him a great deal. It was possible that Shadow the
• 2:08:51
  Speaker 9: Weasel might take it into his head to try to
• 2:08:53
  Speaker 9: surprise him some night. Happy Jack knew that by this
• 2:08:56
  Speaker 9: time Shadow must know where he was living. For of course,
• 2:09:00
  Speaker 9: of course, Sammy Jay had found out, and Sammy is
• 2:09:02
  Speaker 9: one of those who tells all he knows. Still, being
• 2:09:06
  Speaker 9: so close to Farmer Brown's Boy gave Happy Jack a
• 2:09:09
  Speaker 9: very comfortable feeling. Now, all this time, Farmer Brown's Boy
• 2:09:13
  Speaker 9: had not forgotten Shadow the Weasel and how he had
• 2:09:15
  Speaker 9: driven Happy Jack out of the green forest. And he
• 2:09:18
  Speaker 9: had wondered a great many times if it wouldn't be
• 2:09:20
  Speaker 9: a kindness to the other little people, if he shouldn't
• 2:09:23
  Speaker 9: trap Shadow and put him out of the way. But
• 2:09:26
  Speaker 9: you know, he had given up trapping, and somehow he
• 2:09:29
  Speaker 9: didn't like to think of setting a trap, even for
• 2:09:31
  Speaker 9: such a mischief maker as Shadow. Then something happened that
• 2:09:35
  Speaker 9: made Farmer Brown's Boy very very angry. One morning, when
• 2:09:39
  Speaker 9: he went to feed the biddies, he found that Shadow
• 2:09:41
  Speaker 9: had visited the hen house in the night and killed
• 2:09:44
  Speaker 9: three of his best pullets. That decided him. He felt
• 2:09:48
  Speaker 9: sure that Shadow would come again, and he meant to
• 2:09:51
  Speaker 9: give Shadow a surprise. He hunted until he found the
• 2:09:54
  Speaker 9: little hole through which Shadow had got into the hen house,
• 2:09:58
  Speaker 9: and there he set a trap. I don't like to
• 2:10:01
  Speaker 9: do it, but I've got to, said he If he
• 2:10:03
  Speaker 9: had been content with one, it would have been bad enough.
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  Speaker 9: But he killed three just from the love of killing,
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  Speaker 9: and it is high time that something be done to
• 2:10:12
  Speaker 9: get rid of him. The very next morning, Happy Jack
• 2:10:15
  Speaker 9: saw Farmer Brown's Boy coming from the hen house with
• 2:10:18
  Speaker 9: something under his arm. He came straight over to the
• 2:10:21
  Speaker 9: foot of the big maple tree and put the thing
• 2:10:23
  Speaker 9: he was carrying down on the ground. He whistled to
• 2:10:26
  Speaker 9: Happy Jack, and as Happy Jack came down to see
• 2:10:29
  Speaker 9: what it was all about, Farmer Brown's Boy grinned, here's
• 2:10:33
  Speaker 9: a friend of yours. You probably will be glad to see,
• 2:10:36
  Speaker 9: said he. At first, all Happy Jack could make out
• 2:10:40
  Speaker 9: was a kind of wire box. Then he saw something
• 2:10:43
  Speaker 9: white inside, and it moved very suspiciously. Happy Jack came nearer.
• 2:10:49
  Speaker 9: Then his heart gave a great leap. That wire box
• 2:10:53
  Speaker 9: was a cage, and glaring between the wires with red,
• 2:10:56
  Speaker 9: angry eyes was Shadow the Weasel. He was a prisoner.
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  Speaker 9: Right away. Happy Jack was so excited that he acted
• 2:11:03
  Speaker 9: as if you were crazy. He no longer had a
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  Speaker 9: single thing to be afraid of. Do you wonder that
• 2:11:10
  Speaker 9: he was excited? End of chapter twenty nine, Chapter thirty
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  Speaker 9: Happy Jack by Thornton W. Burgess, Chapter thirty A prisoner
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  Speaker 9: without fear. A bad name is easy to get but
• 2:11:44
  Speaker 9: hard to live down. Happy Jack, Shadow the Weasel was
• 2:11:48
  Speaker 9: a prisoner. He who always had been free to go
• 2:11:51
  Speaker 9: and come as he pleased, and to do as he pleased,
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  Speaker 9: was now in a little narrow cage and quite helpless.
• 2:11:58
  Speaker 9: For once he had been careless, And this was the result,
• 2:12:03
  Speaker 9: Farmer Brown's Boy had caught him in a trap. Of course,
• 2:12:07
  Speaker 9: he should have known better than to have visited the
• 2:12:09
  Speaker 9: hen house a second time after killing three of the
• 2:12:11
  Speaker 9: best pullets there. He should have known that Farmer Brown's
• 2:12:15
  Speaker 9: Boy would be sure to do something about it. The
• 2:12:18
  Speaker 9: truth is, he had yielded to temptation when common sense
• 2:12:22
  Speaker 9: had warned him not to. So he had no one
• 2:12:25
  Speaker 9: to blame for his present difficulty but himself, and he
• 2:12:29
  Speaker 9: knew it. At first. He had been in a terrible
• 2:12:32
  Speaker 9: rage and had bitten at the wires until he had
• 2:12:34
  Speaker 9: made his mouth sore. When he had made sure that
• 2:12:37
  Speaker 9: the wires were stouter than his teeth, he wisely stopped
• 2:12:41
  Speaker 9: trying to get out in that way, and made up
• 2:12:43
  Speaker 9: his mind that the only thing to do was to
• 2:12:46
  Speaker 9: watch for a chance to slip out if the door
• 2:12:48
  Speaker 9: of the cage should happen to be left unfastened. Of course,
• 2:12:52
  Speaker 9: it hurt his pride terribly to be made fun of
• 2:12:55
  Speaker 9: by those who always had feared him. Happy Jack Squirrel
• 2:12:59
  Speaker 9: was the first one of these to see him. Farmer
• 2:13:01
  Speaker 9: Brown's Boy had put the cage down near the foot
• 2:13:04
  Speaker 9: of the big maple tree, in which Happy Jack was
• 2:13:06
  Speaker 9: living because Shadow had driven him out of the green forest.
• 2:13:09
  Speaker 9: As soon as Happy Jack had made sure that Shadow
• 2:13:12
  Speaker 9: really and truly was a prisoner and so quite harmless,
• 2:13:16
  Speaker 9: he had acted as if he were crazy. Perhaps he
• 2:13:19
  Speaker 9: was crazy with joy. You see, he no longer had
• 2:13:23
  Speaker 9: anything to be really afraid of, for there was no
• 2:13:26
  Speaker 9: one but Shadow, from whom he could not get away
• 2:13:29
  Speaker 9: by running into his house. Billy Mink was the only
• 2:13:32
  Speaker 9: other one who could follow him there, and Billy was
• 2:13:34
  Speaker 9: not likely to come climbing up a tree so close
• 2:13:36
  Speaker 9: to Farmer Brown's house. So Happy Jack raced up and
• 2:13:40
  Speaker 9: down the tree in the very greatest excitement, and his
• 2:13:43
  Speaker 9: tongue went quite as fast as his legs. He wanted
• 2:13:46
  Speaker 9: everybody to know that Shadow was a prisoner at last.
• 2:13:50
  Speaker 9: At first, he did not dare go very close to
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  Speaker 9: the cage. You see, he had so long feared Shadow
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  Speaker 9: that he was still afraid of him, even though he
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  Speaker 9: was so helpless. But little by little, Happy Jack grew
• 2:14:02
  Speaker 9: bolder and came very close, and then he began doing
• 2:14:05
  Speaker 9: something not at all nice. He began calling Shadow names
• 2:14:09
  Speaker 9: and making fun of him, and telling him how he
• 2:14:11
  Speaker 9: wasn't afraid of him. It was all very foolish and worse.
• 2:14:15
  Speaker 9: It was like hitting a foe who was helpless. Of Course,
• 2:14:19
  Speaker 9: happy Jack hastened to tell everybody he met all about Shadow.
• 2:14:22
  Speaker 9: So it wasn't long before Shadow began to receive many visitors.
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  Speaker 9: Whenever Farmer Brown's Boy was not around, there was sure
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  Speaker 9: to be one or more of the little people who
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  Speaker 9: had feared Shadow to taunt him and make fun of him. Somehow,
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  Speaker 9: it seems as if always it is that way when
• 2:14:38
  Speaker 9: people get into trouble. You know, it is very easy
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  Speaker 9: to appear to be bold and brave when there is
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  Speaker 9: nothing to be afraid of. Of course, that isn't bravery
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  Speaker 9: at all, though many seemed to think it is. Now,
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  Speaker 9: what do you think that? Right down in their hearts,
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  Speaker 9: all these little people who came to jeer at Shadow
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  Speaker 9: the Weasel hoped they would see why they hoped they
• 2:14:58
  Speaker 9: would see Shadow afraid. Yes, sir, that is just what
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  Speaker 9: they hoped. But they didn't. That is where they were disappointed.
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  Speaker 9: Not once did Shadow show the least sign of fear.
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  Speaker 9: He didn't know what Farmer Brown's Boy would do with him,
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  Speaker 9: and he had every reason to fear that if he
• 2:15:15
  Speaker 9: was not to be kept a prisoner for the rest
• 2:15:17
  Speaker 9: of his natural life. Something dreadful would be the end.
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  Speaker 9: But he was too proud and too brave to let
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  Speaker 9: anyone know that any such fear ever entered his mind.
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  Speaker 9: Whatever his faults, Shadow is no coward. He boldly took
• 2:15:31
  Speaker 9: bits of meat which Farmer Brown's Boy brought to him,
• 2:15:34
  Speaker 9: and not once appeared in the least afraid, so that
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  Speaker 9: much as he disliked him, Farmer Brown's Boy actually had
• 2:15:41
  Speaker 9: to admire him. He was a prisoner, but he kept
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  Speaker 9: just as stout a heart as ever. End of chapter
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  Speaker 9: thirty Chapter thirty one of Happy Jack. This is a
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  Speaker 9: Chapter thirty one. What Farmer Brown's Boy did with Shadow
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  Speaker 9: ribble dibble dibbl edab. Some people have the gift of gab.
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  Speaker 9: Some people have no tongues at all to trip them
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  Speaker 9: up and make them fall Happy Jack. It is a fact,
• 2:16:29
  Speaker 9: one of the biggest facts in all the world, that
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  Speaker 9: tongues make the greatest part of all the trouble that
• 2:16:34
  Speaker 9: brings uncomfortable feelings and bitterness and sadness and suffering and sorrow.
• 2:16:39
  Speaker 9: If it wasn't for unruly, careless, mean tongues, the great
• 2:16:43
  Speaker 9: world would be a million times better to live in,
• 2:16:46
  Speaker 9: a million times happier. It is because of his unruly
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  Speaker 9: tongue that Sammy Jay is forever getting into trouble. It
• 2:16:54
  Speaker 9: is the same way with Chatterer the red squirrel, and
• 2:16:57
  Speaker 9: it is just the same way with the great many
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  Speaker 9: little boys and girls, and with grown ups as well.
• 2:17:03
  Speaker 9: When the little people of the green forest and green
• 2:17:05
  Speaker 9: meadows who fear Shadow the Weasel, found that he was
• 2:17:08
  Speaker 9: a prisoner, many of them took particular pains to visit
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  Speaker 9: him when the way was clear, just to make fun
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  Speaker 9: of him and tease him and tell him that they
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  Speaker 9: were not afraid of him, and that they were glad
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  Speaker 9: that he was a prisoner, and that they were sure
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  Speaker 9: something dreadful would happen to him, and that they hoped
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  Speaker 9: it would. Shadows said never a word in reply. He
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  Speaker 9: was too wise to do that. He just turned his
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  Speaker 9: back on them. But all the time he was storing
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  Speaker 9: up in his mind all these hateful things, and he meant,
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  Speaker 9: if he ever got free again, to make life very
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  Speaker 9: uncomfortable for those whose foolish tongues were trying to make
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  Speaker 9: him more miserable than he already felt. But these little
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  Speaker 9: people with the foolish tongues didn't stop to think of
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  Speaker 9: what might happen. They just took it for granted that
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  Speaker 9: Shadow never again would run wild and free in the
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  Speaker 9: green forest, and so they just let their tongues run
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  Speaker 9: and enjoyed doing it. Perhaps they wouldn't have if they
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  Speaker 9: could have known just what was going on in the
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  Speaker 9: mind of Farmer Brown's Boy. Ever since he had found
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  Speaker 9: Shadow in the trap which he had set for him
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  Speaker 9: in the hen house, Farmer Brown's Boy had been puzzling
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  Speaker 9: over what he should do with his prisoner. At first,
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  Speaker 9: he had thought he would keep him in a cage
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  Speaker 9: the rest of his life. But somehow, whenever he looked
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  Speaker 9: into Shadow's fierce little eyes and saw how unafraid they looked,
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  Speaker 9: he got to thinking of how terrible it must be
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  Speaker 9: shut up in a little, narrow cage, when one has
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  Speaker 9: had all the green forests in which to go and come.
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  Speaker 9: Then he thought that he would kill Shadow and put
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  Speaker 9: him out of his misery at once. He killed my pullets,
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  Speaker 9: and he is always hunting the harmless little people of
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  Speaker 9: the green forest and the green meadows, so he deserves
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  Speaker 9: to be killed, thought Farmer Brown's Boy. He's a pest.
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  Speaker 9: Then he remembered that, after all, Shadow was one of
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  Speaker 9: old Mother Nature's little people, and that he must serve
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  Speaker 9: some purpose in Mother Nature's great plan. Bad as he seemed,
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  Speaker 9: she must have some use for him. Perhaps it was
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  Speaker 9: to teach others, through fear of him, how to be
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  Speaker 9: smarter and take better care of themselves, and so be
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  Speaker 9: better fitted to do their parts. The more he thought
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  Speaker 9: of this, the harder it was for Farmer Brown's Boy
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  Speaker 9: to make up his mind to kill him. But if
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  Speaker 9: he couldn't keep him a prisoner, and he couldn't kill him,
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  Speaker 9: what could he do. He was scowling down at Shadow
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  Speaker 9: one morning and puzzling over this when a happy idea
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  Speaker 9: came to him. I know what I'll do, he exclaimed,
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  Speaker 9: without another word. He picked up the cage with Shadow
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  Speaker 9: in it and started off across the green meadows, which
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  Speaker 9: now you know were not green at all but covered
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  Speaker 9: with snow. Happy Jack watched him out of sight. He
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  Speaker 9: had gone in the direction of the old pasture. He
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  Speaker 9: was gone a long time, and when he did return,
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  Speaker 9: the cage was empty. Happy Jack blinked at the empty cage.
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  Speaker 9: Then he began to ask, in a scolding tone, what
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  Speaker 9: did you do with him? What did you do with him?
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  Speaker 9: Farmer Brown's boy just smiled and tossed a nut to
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  Speaker 9: Happy Jack, and far up in the old pasture, shadow
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  Speaker 9: the weasel was once more free. It was well for
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  Speaker 9: Happy Jack's peace of mind that he didn't know that.
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  Speaker 9: End of chapter thirty one.
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  Speaker 1: Chapter thirty two of Happy Jack. This is a LibriVox recording.
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  Speaker 1: by Karina Praira. Happy Jack by Thornton W. Burgess, Chapter
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  Speaker 1: thirty two, Happy Jack is perfectly happy. Never say a
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  Speaker 1: thing is so unless you absolutely know. Just remember every
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  Speaker 1: day to be quite sure of what you say, Happy Jack.
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  Speaker 1: Taking things for granted doesn't do at all in this world.
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  Speaker 1: To take a thing for granted is to think that
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  Speaker 1: it is so without taking the trouble to find out
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  Speaker 1: whether it is or not. It is apt not only
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  Speaker 1: to get you yourself in trouble, but to make trouble
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  Speaker 1: for other people as well. Happy Jack saw Farmer Brown's
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  Speaker 1: boy carry Shadow the whistle away in a cage, and
• 2:21:21
  Speaker 1: he saw him bring back the cage empty. What could
• 2:21:25
  Speaker 1: he have done with Shadow? For a while it eased
• 2:21:28
  Speaker 1: Farmer Brown's boy to tell him, but of course Farmer
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  Speaker 1: Brown's Boy didn't understand Happy Jack's language. Now Happy Jack
• 2:21:38
  Speaker 1: knew just what he would like to believe. He would
• 2:21:41
  Speaker 1: like to believe that Farmer Brown's boy had taken Shadow
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  Speaker 1: away and made an end of him. And because he
• 2:21:48
  Speaker 1: wanted to believe that, it wasn't very hard to believe it.
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  Speaker 1: There was the empty cage. Of course, Farmer Brown's boy
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't have gone to the trouble of trapping Shadow, and
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  Speaker 1: as he intended to get rid of him for good,
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  Speaker 1: he's made an end of him. That's what he's done,
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  Speaker 1: said Happy Jack to himself, because that is what he
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  Speaker 1: would have done if he had been in Farmer Brown's
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  Speaker 1: Boy's place. So, having made up his mind that this
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  Speaker 1: is what had been done with Shadow, he at once
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  Speaker 1: told all his friends that it was so, and was
• 2:22:23
  Speaker 1: himself supremely happy. You see, he felt that he no
• 2:22:28
  Speaker 1: longer had anything to worry about. Yes, sir, Happy Jack
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  Speaker 1: was happy in like the house Farmer Brown's boy had
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  Speaker 1: made for him in the big mapple tree close by
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  Speaker 1: his own house. He was sure of plenty to eat
• 2:22:43
  Speaker 1: because Farmer Brown's boy always looked out for that, and
• 2:22:47
  Speaker 1: as a result, Happy Jack was growing fat. None of
• 2:22:51
  Speaker 1: his enemies of the Green Forest dead come so near
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  Speaker 1: to Farmer Brown's house, and the only one he had
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  Speaker 1: to watch out four at all was Black Pussy. By
• 2:23:02
  Speaker 1: this time, he wasn't afraid of her, not a bit.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, he rather enjoyed hitting her and getting her
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  Speaker 1: to chase him. When she was dozing on the doorstep,
• 2:23:13
  Speaker 1: he liked to steal very close, wake her with a
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  Speaker 1: sharp bark, and then race for the nearest tree and
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  Speaker 1: there scold her to his heart's content. He had made
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  Speaker 1: friends with Missus Brown and with Farmer Brown, and he
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  Speaker 1: even felt almost friends with Bowser the hound. Sometimes it
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  Speaker 1: would climb up on the roof of Bowser's little house
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  Speaker 1: and drop nut shells on Bowser's head when he was asleep.
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  Speaker 1: The funny thing was, Bowser never seemed to mind. He
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  Speaker 1: would lazily open his eyes and wink one of them
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  Speaker 1: at Happy Jack and thump with his tail. He seemed
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  Speaker 1: to feel that now Happy Jack was one of the family,
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  Speaker 1: just as he was. So Happy Jack was just as
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  Speaker 1: happy as a fat, great squirrel with nothing to worry
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  Speaker 1: him could be. He was so happy that Sammy Jay
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  Speaker 1: actually became jealous. You know, Sammy is a born trouble maker.
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  Speaker 1: He visited Happy Jack every morning, and while he helped
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  Speaker 1: himself to do good things that he always found spread
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  Speaker 1: for him, for Farmer Brown's boy always had something for
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  Speaker 1: the little feathered folk to eat. He would hint darkly
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  Speaker 1: that such goodness and kindness was not to be trusted,
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  Speaker 1: and that something was sure to happen. That is just
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  Speaker 1: the way with some folks, they always are suspicious. But
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  Speaker 1: nothing that Sammy Jay could say troubled Happy Jack, and
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  Speaker 1: Sammy would fly away quite put out because he couldn't
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  Speaker 1: spoil Happy Jack's happiness the least little bit end of
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  Speaker 1: chapter thirty two. Recording by carry A.
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  Speaker 9: Praira, Chapter thirty three of Happy Jack. This is a
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  Speaker 9: Chapter thirty three, Sammy Jay upsets Happy Jack. A good
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  Speaker 9: deed well done often is overlooked, but you never are
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  Speaker 9: allowed to forget a mistake. Happy Jack. Sammy Jy chuckled
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  Speaker 9: as he flew across the snow covered green meadows on
• 2:25:38
  Speaker 9: his way to his home in the Green Forest. He chuckled,
• 2:25:42
  Speaker 9: and he chuckled. To have heard him, you would have
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  Speaker 9: thought that either he had thought of something very pleasant,
• 2:25:47
  Speaker 9: or something very pleasant had happened to him. Once he
• 2:25:51
  Speaker 9: turned in the direction of Farmer Brown's house, but changed
• 2:25:54
  Speaker 9: his mind as he saw the black shadows creeping out
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  Speaker 9: from the Purple hills, and once more headed for the
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  Speaker 9: green for four too late to day time. I was
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  Speaker 9: home now it'll keep until tomorrow, he muttered. Then he chuckled,
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  Speaker 9: and he was still chuckling when he reached the big
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  Speaker 9: hemlock tree, among the thick branches of which he spent
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  Speaker 9: each night. Don't know what started me off to the
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  Speaker 9: old pasture this afternoon, but I'm glad I went. My, my, my,
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  Speaker 9: but I'm glad I went, said he as he fluffed
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  Speaker 9: out his feathers and prepared to tuck his head under
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  Speaker 9: his wing. It pays to snoop around in this world
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  Speaker 9: and see what is going on. I learned a long
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  Speaker 9: time ago not to believe everything I hear, and that
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  Speaker 9: the surest way to make sure of things is to
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  Speaker 9: find out for myself, nothing like using my own eyes
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  Speaker 9: and my own ears. Well, I must get to sleep.
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  Speaker 9: He began to chuckle again, and he was still chuckling
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  Speaker 9: as he fell asleep. The next morning, Sammy Jay was
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  Speaker 9: astir at the very first sign of light. He waited
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  Speaker 9: just long enough to see that every feather was in place,
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  Speaker 9: for Sammy is a bit vain and very particular about
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  Speaker 9: his Then he headed straight for Farmer Brown's house. Just
• 2:27:04
  Speaker 9: as he expected, he found Happy Jack squirrel was awake.
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  Speaker 9: For happy Jack is an early riser. Good morning, said
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  Speaker 9: Sammy Jay, and tried very hard to make his voice
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  Speaker 9: sound smooth and pleasant. A very hard thing for Sammy
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  Speaker 9: to do, for his voice, you know, is naturally harsh
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  Speaker 9: and unpleasant. You seem to be looking as happy as ever.
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  Speaker 9: Of course I am, replied happy Jack. Why shouldn't I be?
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  Speaker 9: I haven't a thing to worry about, of course, I'm happy,
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  Speaker 9: and I hope you're just as happy as I am.
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  Speaker 9: I'm going to get my breakfast now, and then I'll
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  Speaker 9: be happier still. That's so, there's nothing like a good
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  Speaker 9: breakfast to make one happy, said Sammy Jay, helping himself
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  Speaker 9: to some suet tied to a branch of the maple
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  Speaker 9: tree by the way. I saw an old friend of
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  Speaker 9: yours yesterday. He inquired after you particularly. He didn't exactly
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  Speaker 9: send his love, but he said that he hoped you
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  Speaker 9: are as well and fat as ever, and that he
• 2:28:00
  Speaker 9: will see you again sometime. He said that he didn't
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  Speaker 9: know of anyone he likes to look at better than you.
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  Speaker 9: Happy Jack looked flattered. That was very nice of him,
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  Speaker 9: said he. Who was it, guess, replied Sammy. Happy Jack
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  Speaker 9: scratched his head thoughtfully. There were not many friends in winter.
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  Speaker 9: Most of them were asleep or had gone to the
• 2:28:21
  Speaker 9: far away southland. Peter Rabbit, he ventured. Sammy shook his head.
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  Speaker 9: Jimmy skunk again. Sammy shook his head. Jumper the hare
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  Speaker 9: guess again, said Sammy, chuckling. Little Joe Otter wrong, replied Sammy.
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  Speaker 9: I give up, Who was it?
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  Speaker 8: Do?
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  Speaker 9: Tell me? Begged Happy Jack. It was Shadow, the weasel,
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  Speaker 9: cried Sammy triumphantly. Happy Jack dropped the nut he was
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  Speaker 9: just going to eat, and in place of happiness, something
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  Speaker 9: very like fear grew and grew in his eyes. I
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  Speaker 9: I don't believe you, he stammered. Farmer Brown's boy took
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  Speaker 9: him away and put an end to him. I saw
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  Speaker 9: him take him, But you didn't see him put an
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  Speaker 9: end to shadow, declared Sammy. Because he didn't. He took
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  Speaker 9: him way up in the old pasture and let him go,
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  Speaker 9: And I saw him up there yesterday. That's what comes
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  Speaker 9: of guessing at things. Shadow is no more dead than
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  Speaker 9: you are. Well, I must be going along. I hope
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  Speaker 9: you'll enjoy your breakfast with this off, flew Sammy Jay,
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  Speaker 9: chuckling as if he thought he had done a very
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  Speaker 9: smart thing in upsetting Happy Jack, which goes to show
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  Speaker 9: what queer ideas some people have. As for Happy Jack,
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  Speaker 9: he worried for a while, but his shadow didn't come,
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  Speaker 9: and there was nothing else to worry about. Little by little,
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  Speaker 9: happy Jack's high spirits returned until he was as happy
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  Speaker 9: as ever. And now, though he has had many adventures
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  Speaker 9: since then, I must leave him, for there is no
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  Speaker 9: more room in this book. Perhaps if you ask him,
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  Speaker 9: he will tell you of these other adventures himself. Meanwhile,
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  Speaker 9: bashful little Missus Peter Rabbit is anxious that you should
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  Speaker 9: know something about her. So I have promised to call
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  Speaker 9: the next book Missus Peter Rabbit. End of Chapter thirty three.
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  Speaker 9: End of Happy Jack by Thornton W. Burgess