Thornton W. Burgess - The Adventures of Happy Jack
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But the bouncing, bushy-tailed creatures days of comfort and security are threatened when he wakes one morning to find his worst dream come true: Shadow the Weasel is close by, and Happy Jack finds himself running for his life, trying every trick he knows to get away from his enemy.
With gentle charm and good-natured humor, master storyteller Thornton Burgess once again draws youngsters into the timeless world of the Green Forest and the Green Meadows where young readers learn about nature and are encouraged to love the lesser folk in fur and feathers.
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POLITICS, Aristotle. (0-486-41424-8)
PRIDE AND PREJUDICE, Jane Austen. (0-486-28473-5)
BEOWULF, Beowulf (translated by R. K. Gordon). (0-486-27264-8)
THE DEVILS DICTIONARY, Ambrose Bierce. (0-486-27542-6)
TO MY HUSBAND AND OTHER POEMS, Anne Bradstreet. (0-486-41408-6)
WUTHERING HEIGHTS, Emily Bront. (0-486-29256-8)
MY LAST DUCHESS AND OTHER POEMS, Robert Browning. (0-486-27783-6)
THE THIRTY-NINE STEPS, John Buchan. (0-486-28201-5)
TARZAN OF THE APES, Edgar Rice Burroughs. (0-486-29570-2)
ALICES ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND, Lewis Carroll. (0-486-27543-4)
MY NTONIA, Willa Cather. (0-486-28240-6)
SELECTED CANTERBURY TALES, Geoffrey Chaucer. (0-486-28241-4)
FIVE GREAT SHORT STORIES, Anton Chekhov. (0-486-26463-7)
FAVORITE FATHER BROWN STORIES, G. K. Chesterton. (0-486-27545-0)
THE WAY OF THE WORLD, William Congreve. (0-486-27787-9)
LORD JIM, Joseph Conrad. (0-486-40650-4) ROBINSON CRUSOE, Daniel Defoe. (0-486-40427-7)
A CHRISTMAS CAROL, Charles Dickens. (0-486-26865-9)
A TALE OF TWO CITIES, Charles Dickens. (0-486-40651-2)
SELECTED POEMS, John Donne. (0-486-27788-7)
NOTES FROM THE UNDERGROUND, Fyodor Dostoyevsky. (0-486-27053-X)
THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES, Arthur Conan Doyle. (0-486-28214-7)
SILAS MARNER, George Eliot. (0-486-29246-0)
THIS SIDE OF PARADISE, F. Scott Fitzgerald. (0-486-28999-0)
MADAME BOVARY, Gustave Flaubert. (0-486-29257-6)
WHERE ANGELS FEAR TO TREAD, E. M. Forster. (0-486-27791-7)
WIT AND WISDOM FROM POOR RICHARDS ALMANACK, Benjamin Franklin. (0-486-40891-4)
A BOYS WILL AND NORTH OF BOSTON, Robert Frost. (Available in U.S. only.) (0-486-26866-7)
THE MIKADO, William Schwenck Gilbert. (0-486-27268-0)
HERLAND, Charlotte Perkins Gilman. (0-486-40429-3)
THE OVERCOAT AND OTHER SHORT STORIES, Nikolai Gogol. (0-486-27057-2)
THE HOUSE OF THE SEVEN GABLES, Nathaniel Hawthorne. (0-486-40882-5)
THE GIFT OF THE MAGI AND OTHER STORIES, O. Henry. (0-486-27061-0)
DEMIAN, Hermann Hesse. (0-486-41413-2)
THE ILIAD, Homer. (0-486-40883-3)
DAISY MILLER, Henry James. (0-486-28773-4)
A WHITE HERON AND OTHER STORIES, Sarah Orne Jewett. (0-486-40884-1)
THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF AN EX-COLORED MAN, James Weldon Johnson. (0-486-28512-X)
DUBLINERS, James Joyce. (0-486-26870-5)
THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING AND OTHER STORIES, Rudyard Kipling. (0-486-28051-9)
YOU KNOW ME AL, Ring Larnder. (0-486-28513-8)
MAIN STREET, Sinclair Lewis. (0-486-40655-5)
THE SEA-WOLF, Jack London. (0-486-41108-7)
DEATH IN VENICE, Thomas Mann. (Available in U.S. only.) (0-486-28714-9)
DR. FAUSTUS, Christopher Marlowe. (0-486-28208-2)
TO HIS COY MISTRESS AND OTHER POEMS, Andrew Marvell. (0-486-29544-3)
SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY, Edgar Lee Masters. (0-486-27275-3)
THE MISANTHROPE, Molire. (0-486-27065-3)
THE NIBELUNGENLIED, translated by Arthur Waley. (0-486-41414-0)
TALES OF TERROR AND DETECTION, Edgar Allan Poe. (0-486-28744-0)
THE QUEEN OF SPADES AND OTHER STORIES, Alexander Pushkin. (0-486-28054-3)
COMPLETE SONNETS, William Shakespeare. (0-486-26686-9)
ARMS AND THE MAN, George Bernard Shaw. (Available in U.S. only.) (0-486-26476-9)
FRANKENSTEIN, Mary Shelley. (0-486-28211-2)
TREASURE ISLAND, Robert Louis Stevenson. (0-486-27559-0)
GITANJALI, Rabindranath Tagore. (Available in U.S. only.) (0-486-41417-5)
FATHERS AND SONS, Ivan Turgenev. (0-486-40073-5)
THE PRINCE AND THE PAUPER, Mark Twain. (0-486-41110-9)
CANDIDE, Voltaire (Franois-Marie Arouet). (0-486-26689-3)
AROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY DAYS, Jules Verne. (0-486-41111-7)
THE INVISIBLE MAN, H. G. Wells. (0-486-27071-8)
THE AGE OF INNOCENCE, Edith Wharton. (0-486-29803-5)
SONG OF MYSELF, Walt Whitman. (0-486-41410-8)
THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY, Ocsar Wilde. (0-486-27807-7)
A VINDICATION OF THE RIGHTS OF WOMAN, Mary Wollstonecraft. (0-486-29036-0)
FAVORITE POEMS, William Wordsworth. (0-486-27073-4)
VOICES FROM SLAVERY: 100 AUTHENTIC SLAVE NARRATIVES, Norman R. Yetman (ed.). (0-486-40912-0)
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Happy Jack.
H appy Jack Squirrel sat on the tip of one of the highest branches of a big hickory tree. Happy Jack was up very early that morning. In fact, jolly, round, red Mr. Sun was still in his bed behind the Purple Hills when Happy Jack hopped briskly out of bed. He washed himself thoroughly and was ready for business by the time Mr. Sun began his climb up in the blue, blue sky.
You see, Happy Jack had found that big hickory tree just loaded with nuts all ripe and ready to gather. He was quite sure that no one else had found that special tree, and he wanted to get all the nuts before any one else found out about them. So he was all ready and off he raced to the big tree just as soon as it was light enough to see.
The nuts that grow in the hickory tree
Theyre all for me! Theyre all for me!
Happy Jack was humming that little song as he rested for a few minutes way up in the top of the tree and wondered if his storehouse would hold all these big, fat nuts. Just then he heard a great scolding a little way over in the Green Forest. Happy Jack stopped humming and listened. He knew that voice. It was his cousins voicethe voice of Chatterer the Red Squirrel. Happy Jack frowned. I hope he wont come over this way, muttered Happy Jack. He does not love his cousin Chatterer anyway, and then there was the big tree full of hickory nuts! He didnt want Chatterer to find that.
I am afraid that Happy Jack was selfish. There were more nuts than he could possibly eat in one winter, and yet he wasnt willing that his cousin, Chatterer the Red Squirrel, should have a single one. Now Chatterer is short-tempered and a great scold. Some one or something had upset him this morning, and he was scolding as fast as his tongue could go, as he came running right towards the tree in which Happy Jack was sitting. Happy Jack sat perfectly still and watched. He didnt move so much as the tip of his big gray tail. Would Chatterer go past and not see that big tree full of nuts? It looked very much as if he would, for he was so busy scolding that he wasnt paying much attention to other things.
Happy Jack smiled as Chatterer came running under the tree without once looking up. He was so tickled that he started to hug himself and didnt remember that he was holding a big, fat nut in his hands. Of course he dropped it. Where do you think it went? Well, Sir, it fell straight down, down from the top of that tall tree, and it landed right on the head of Chatterer the Red Squirrel!
My stars! cried Chatterer, stopping his scolding and his running together, and rubbing his head where the nut had hit him. Then he looked up to see where it had come from. Of course, he looked straight up at Happy Jack.
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