" He started to pick the ear of corn off the table when Uncle Sammy
rose quickly.
"All right!" he cried. "But it's the old-fashioned way; and I don't like
it." Then he gave Sandy a small handful of beechnuts.
Sandy Chipmunk ate them right on the spot. And he began to feel very
happy. He had noticed that Uncle Sammy tossed the ear of corn into a
basket which stood beneath the table. And the basket was full of corn.
Sandy could reach it just as easily from the front of the table as Uncle
Sammy could from behind it.
And Sandy Chipmunk had thought all at once of a way to get a good many
nuts away from Uncle Sammy, to pay for all the wheat Uncle Sammy had
eaten.
VIII
THE BASKET OF CORN
"What are those nuts on the top shelf?" Sandy Chipmunk asked Uncle
Sammy Coon.
Now, Uncle Sammy had been keeping store so short a time that he didn't
exactly know what was on every one of his shelves. So he wheeled around
and looked up. And as soon as his back was turned, Sandy Chipmunk reached
down under the table and pulled an ear of corn out of the big basket.
"They're butternuts," Uncle Sammy said.
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