Mother West Wind ’Why’ Stories
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I. Why Striped Chipmunk is Proud of His Stripes
The Merry Little Breezes of Old Mother West Wind are great friends of Striped Chipmunk. They hurry to call on him the very first thing every morning after Old Mother West Wind has brought them down from the Purple Hills. They always beg him to stop and play with them, but often he refuses. But he does it in such a merry way and with such a twinkle in his eyes that the Merry Little Breezes never get cross because he won‘t play. No, Sir, they never get cross. If anything, they think just a little bit more of Striped Chipmunk because he won‘t play. You see, they know that the reason he won‘t play is because he has work to do, and Striped Chipmunk believes and says:
"When there is work for me to do The sooner started, sooner through."
So every morning they ask him to play, and every morning they laugh when he says he has too much to do. Then they rumple up his hair and pull his whiskers and give him last tag an
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