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Show mightily and crouched closer to the tree in sheer relief. In a moment there came to their ears the sound of footsteps, and looking far down the trail along the brook, they found the answer to Willie's sudden flight. Coming down the trail, with a big, black stick over his shoulder, was a man. Oh, not just any man, for this was Little Jimmy's Daddy. Of course, you don't know about Little Jirnmy, but if you'll come back again next week, we will tell you all about him, and how he came to very good friends with Chitter and Chatter, j Right now, aren't you happy that his Father came along to frighten Willie the Weasel away from the tree, so Chitter and Chatter could hurry home with all the nuts they had gathered?? In spite of the fact that the printing got all mixed up last week, it was Willie, the Weasel, who was wandering around at the foot of the tree where Chitter and Chatter had just found whole cones of wonderful nuts to store for their winter food supply. And this same Willie, the Weas-, el, was snuffing hungrily at the tracks made by our two little friends when they scurried up the tree after their first load of nuts.1 "Will will he get us," Chitter whimpered, crouching fearfully against the rough bark of the pine tree. . I I "I I don't think so," Chatter answered timidly, and stuck his little nose over the edge of the limb to see what they enemy was doing. ,'Oh-o-o-o,,, he exclaimed, jerking back quickly. "He's starting start-ing up!" Just like they were started with the very same switch, the two little lit-tle chipmunks scampered up and up and up into the very highest branches of the big pine and finally, fin-ally, when they were so very high that even they got a little dizzy when they looked down, they stopped. stop-ped. With hearts beating like hail pounding on the roof, they carefully care-fully looked down to see if Willie !was still after them. i I Imagine their delight to just J catch a glimpse of Willie rushing ! through the willows on the bank of the Brook as if he were really more frightened than Chitter and Chatter themselves! "Well, I never thought that would happen," murmured Chitter, Chit-ter, getting a big, BIG breath and trying to keep the pounding of her heart from shaking her right off of the little limb she was clinging to. while Chatter just sighed |