VII

UNCLE SAMMY'S STORE


Not long after Uncle Sammy Coon ate half of Sandy Chipmunk's wheat
without paying for it he seemed to grow lamer than ever. And he walked
less than ever, too. A good many of the forest-folk said that he really
wasn't any lamer--but he was lazier.

However that may have been, he began to stay at home a good deal of the
time. And finally Sandy Chipmunk heard that Uncle Sammy had opened a
store, in which he kept all sorts of good things to eat.

When Sandy learned that he lost no time in going over to Uncle Sammy's
house near the swamp.

Sure enough! There he found Uncle Sammy sitting behind a long table. And
behind him were shelves loaded with apples, pears, corn, nuts and many
other kinds of food.

"I'd like to buy some nuts," Sandy Chipmunk told the old gentleman.

"Nuts?" said Uncle Sammy. "I have some fine nuts."

"Let me see a sample," Sandy said.

But Uncle Sammy never stirred.

"There they are, right on the shelf!" he said. "Look at them all