Farmer Green's wife had noticed that the flour in her flour-barrel was
getting low. So one morning Farmer Green pulled a wagon from under a shed
and set a big bag of wheat in it, behind the seat. Then he went into the
house to get a piece of string with which to tie the bag. Farmer Green
hadn't seen a pair of bright eyes that were watching him from the fence
near-by. And he didn't know that as soon as he started to cross the
barnyard, Sandy Chipmunk stole up to the wagon, climbed into it, and
crept inside the open bag of wheat.

Now, Sandy had not had his breakfast. So he began at once to eat heartily
of the wheat kernels, believing that after he had had a good meal it
would be time enough to think of carrying some of the wheat away to his
house. He only hoped that no one would take the bag away until he had
removed _all_ the wheat. There was enough of it--he was sure--to last him
for any number of winters.

Now, you must not think that Sandy was greedy, because he wanted all that
wheat. He intended all the time to leave the _bag_ for Farmer Green.

The wheat tasted so good that Sandy Chipmunk could think of nothing
else. So he never heard Johnnie Green's father when he came back from
the house. And before Sandy knew what was happening, Farmer Green had
reached into the wagon, drawn the mouth of the bag together, and tied it
hard and fast.

There was Sandy Chipmunk, inside the bag. And he was so frightened that
he couldn't eat another mouthful. He just shivered and shook, while
Farmer Green went into the barn, led out an old, slow horse called
Ebenezer, and harnessed him to the wagon.