And soon he too was running like mad along the
road--only he was going in exactly the opposite direction to that in
which Uncle Sammy had vanished.
He never stopped running until he had reached the woods. And since he
could not bring any corn home with him, he thought that there was
really no sense in telling his mother anything about his adventure.
The next day, as Frisky was playing in a tree-top, he came across
Uncle Sammy Coon sunning himself.
"Where's my corn?" asked Frisky Squirrel.
"Corn!" Uncle Sammy exclaimed, as if he had forgotten all about such a
thing. "Oh! you mean that corn that we got last night. Now, I'm sorry
to say that the bag was so heavy I had to drop it, because old dog
Spot was after me, you know. And when I went back to get it, later, it
wasn't there.... We'll have to try again, some other time," he added.
Frisky Squirrel began to see that the old fellow had tricked him.
Uncle Sammy's sides looked very plump, as if he had had an unusually
good meal. And he smiled so pleasantly that Frisky Squirrel became
very angry.
"You'll get your own corn next time," he snapped. And as he skipped
away he heard Uncle Sammy Coon laugh heartily--just as though something
had amused him.
X
Tails and Ears
Among all his friends, Frisky Squirrel liked to play with Jimmy Rabbit
best. You see, Jimmy never wanted to eat him. He was so fond of tender
young sprouts, and of Farmer Green's vegetables, that he wouldn't have
taken even the smallest bite out of Frisky.
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