"I know it," replied Striped Chipmunk and shivered again. "I know
it. I guess I wouldn't be if Reddy Fox hadn't happened along just
then and frightened Shadow away. I've had a kindlier feeling for
Reddy Fox ever since."
"I never ran harder in my life than the time I saw him," spoke up
Jumper the Hare. "He was hunting me just the same way, running
with his nose in the snow and following every twist and turn I had
made. But for that black-tipped tail I wouldn't have seen him
until too late."
"Pooh!" exclaimed Jimmy Skunk. "The idea of a big fellow like you
running from such a little fellow as my Cousin Shadow!"
"I'm not ashamed of running," declared Jumper. "I may be ever so
much bigger, but he is so quick I wouldn't stand the least chance
in the world. When I suspect Shadow is about, I go somewhere else,
the farther the better. If I could climb a tree like Chatterer,
it would be different."
"No, it wouldn't!" interrupted Chatterer. "No, it wouldn't. That
fellow can climb almost as well as I can. The only thing that
saved me from him once was the fact that I could make a long jump
from one tree to another and he couldn't. He had found a hole in
a certain tree where I was living, and it was just luck that I
wasn't at home when he called. I was just returning when he
popped out. I ran for my life.
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