Show 1 INDIAN TALES by albert B reagan heagan ph D all rights reserved why 7 the chipmunk has stripes on his back I 1 in the lona ago an old woman dind bind her granddaughter had bad a skin robe which they used as a blanket to sleep under at night they used it for a lung long time besides t tasy were not as careful with it as they should have been As aa a rp suit ault its ita hiir bair finally became mostly rn ast dst worn off then one are day whon when they had boon baen out camping the skin suddenly became alive and angry at them tor for their not ba havins taken better care of it so with all their might they ran tor far their lives it followed them and gained on them then the grandmother began to sing we are running our best for or our lives we are running our best for our lives the attacking skin thereupon 1 slackened its running for a 0 moment ment but soon again gained upon the them as before harder they ran they saw a small hole hola la in a large tree and alid to this they made haste as their only possible chance to escape they mado made themselves small to got get through the hole the live skin clawed at t them when t they hey jumped through the hole scratching their backs the skin had bad changed itself to abear a bear and in making themselves ea small so they could escape through the ho hole lethey they had bad changed themselves to chipmunks you can still see the stripes on chipmunks back as a result of the scratches received by those escaping two in that far off time |