The next day Mr. Red Squirrel stopped hunting because he had his thousand nuts . `` But Mr. Chipmunk had hardly more than half as many . And that night he made a dreadful discovery -- some one had found his secret store-house and had stolen some of his precious nuts . '' ` It 's of no use to cry over what ca n't be helped , ' said Mr. Chipmunk , and the next morning he bravely started out again . He had worked so hard that he had grown thinner and thinner until now he was only a shadow of his old self . But he was as cheerful as ever and kept right on hunting and hunting for stray nuts . Mr. Gray Squirrel and Mr. Fox Squirrel and Mr. Red Squirrel sat around and rested and made fun of him . Way up in the tops of the tallest trees a few nuts still clung , but his cousins did not once offer to go up and shake them down for Mr. Chipmunk . `` And then old Mother Nature came down across the Green Meadows . First Mr. Gray Squirrel took her to his storehouse and she counted his thousand nuts . Then Mr. Fox Squirrel led her to his storehouse and she counted his thousand nuts . Then Mr. Red Squirrel showed her his store-house and she counted his thousand nuts . `` Last of all Mr. Chipmunk led her to his secret store-house and showed her the pile of nuts he had worked so hard to get . Old Mother Nature did n't need to count them to see that there were not a thousand there . '' ` I 've done the best I could , ' said Mr. Chipmunk bravely , and he trembled all over , he was so tired . `` Old Mother Nature said never a word but went out on the Green Meadows and sent the Merry Little Breezes to call together all the little meadow people and all the little forest folks . When they had all gathered before her she suddenly turned to Mr. Gray Squirrel . '' ` Go bring me a hundred nuts from your store-house , ' said she . `` Then she turned to Mr. Fox Squirrel . '' ` Go bring me a hundred nuts from your store-house , ' said she .
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