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voice and a thin squirrel voice
were singing together--

     "My little old man and I fell out,
     How shall we bring this matter about?
     Bring it about as well as you can,
     And get you gone, you little old man!"

"You could squeeze in, through
that little round hole," said Goody
Tiptoes. "Yes, I could," said the
Chipmunk, "but my husband,
Chippy Hackee, bites!"

Down below there was a noise
of cracking nuts and nibbling; and
then the fat squirrel voice and the
thin squirrel voice sang--

     "For the diddlum day
     Day diddle durn di!
     Day diddle diddle dum day!"

Then Goody peeped in at the
hole, and called down--"Timmy
Tiptoes! Oh fie, Timmy Tiptoes!"
And Timmy replied, "Is that you,
Goody Tiptoes? Why, certainly!"

He came up and kissed Goody
through the hole; but he was so fat
that he could not get out.

Chippy Hackee was not too fat,
but he did not want to come; he
stayed down below and chuckled.

And so it went on for a fort-
night; till a big wind blew off
the top of the tree, and opened
up the hole and let in the rain.

Then Timmy Tiptoes came
out, and went home with an
umbrella.

But Chippy Hackee continued
to camp out for another
week, although it was
uncomfortable.

At last a large bear came
walking through the wood.
Perhaps he also was looking
for nuts; he seemed to be
sniffing around.

Chippy Hackee went home
in a hurry!

And when Chippy Hackee
got home, he found he had
caught a cold in his head; and
he was more uncomfortable
still.

And now Timmy and
Goody Tiptoes keep their nut
store fastened up with a little
padlock.

And whenever that little
bird sees the Chipmunks, he
sings--"Who's-been-digging-
up MY-nuts? Who's been dig-
ging-up MY-nuts?" But nobody
ever answers!
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