Then he started down the Crooked Little Path . Half way down he met Striped Chipmunk . '' ` Good evening , Mr. Meadow Mouse , ' said Striped Chipmunk . ` What are you toting in the bag across your shoulder ? ' `` Now , of course , Mr. Meadow Mouse did n't know what was in the bag and he did n't like to admit that he was working for another , for he was very proud , was Mr. Meadow Mouse . `` So he said : ` Just a planting of potatoes I begged from Jimmy Skunk , just a planting of potatoes , Striped Chipmunk . ' `` Now no one had ever suspected Mr. Meadow Mouse of stealing -- no indeed ! Striped Chipmunk would have gone his way and thought no more about it , had it not happened that there was a hole in the bag and from it something dropped at his feet . Striped Chipmunk picked it up and it was n't a potato . It was a fat acorn . Striped Chipmunk said nothing but slipped it into his pocket . '' ` Good night , ' said Mr. Meadow Mouse , once more shouldering the bag . '' ` Good night , ' said Striped Chipmunk . `` No sooner had Mr. Meadow Mouse disappeared in the darkness down the Crooked Little Path than Striped Chipmunk hurried to his granary . Some one had been there and stolen all his acorns ! `` Then Striped Chipmunk ran to the house of his cousin , Happy Jack Squirrel , and told him how the acorns had been stolen from his granary and how he had met Mr. Meadow Mouse with a bag over his shoulder and how Mr. Meadow Mouse had said that he was toting home a planting of potatoes he had begged from Jimmy Skunk . ` And this , ' said Striped Chipmunk , holding out the fat acorn , ` is what fell out of the bag . ' `` Then Striped Chipmunk and Happy Jack Squirrel hurried over to Jimmy Skunk 's house , and , just as they expected , they found that Mr. Meadow Mouse had not begged a planting of potatoes of Jimmy Skunk . `` So Striped Chipmunk and Happy Jack Squirrel and Jimmy Skunk hurried over to Mr. Rabbit 's and told him all about Mr. Meadow Mouse and the bag of potatoes that dropped acorns . Mr. Rabbit looked very grave , very grave indeed .
Then Striped Chipmunk and Happy Jack Squirrel and Jimmy XXXXX and Mr. Rabbit started to tell Mr. Coon , who was cousin to old King Bear .
Chipmunk Mouse Rabbit Skunk Squirrel acorn darkness house potato stealing