"I declare!" cried Farmer Green at last. "I seem to be the only person in
the neighborhood that didn't get one of those letters." Then he happened
to remember the letter Sandy Chipmunk had carried away in his mouth. "It
must have been that letter that the chipmunk stole out of my mail-box!"
Farmer Green said. And that night, when he reached home and told his
family about the letter, his son Johnnie laughed harder than ever.

"That must be a wise chipmunk!" Johnnie Green exclaimed. "I wish I could
catch him and put him in my squirrel cage."

"I wish he'd leave my mail alone," said Farmer Green. "The next thing we
know, he'll be taking my newspaper to read. And maybe he'll come right
into the house and borrow my spectacles."

Johnnie Green seemed to think his father was joking. And perhaps he was.

What do you think about it?




XIII

A RIDE TO THE MILLER'S


Do you know about the time Johnnie Green and his grandmother and Sandy
Chipmunk started for the miller's with a sack of wheat to be ground? If
you never heard the story, this is the way it happened--and if you _have_
heard it, it happened this way, just the same: