little squirrel stopped to take
another sniff.

"That smells like peanuts," Bobby said to himself.

"I will make a hole in the bag and see what is inside."

Bobby took hold of the bag with his sharp little teeth and tore a big
round hole.

He tore a hole big enough to put his paw through.

And then he was just like little Jack Horner.

He put in his thumb
And pulled out a plum,

And said, "What a big squirrel am I."

He pulled out the kind of plum he liked best of all. It was a peanut.

He pulled out one peanut, and then he pulled out another.

"This bag is full of peanuts," he said to himself. "There are so many
here I can never eat them all."

[Illustration: "This bag is full of peanuts."]

"I know what I can do. I can have a party."

Now squirrels must like to have parties just as well as little boys and
girls.

Because when Bobby thought of the party he jumped up and down and
clapped his hands.

Then he started off to invite all the other gray squirrels.

But he stopped when he reached the top of the wall.

He had just thought that some one might come while he was away and find
the peanuts.

"I will hide them in the wall," he said to himself. "Then they will be
out of sight."

So Bobby jumped down again and began to carry the nuts to a safe place.

It took so long, and Bobby worked so hard that he had to go back home
to take a nap when he had finished.

II

Bobby Gray Squirrel slept and slept.

But Sammy Red Squirrel was not asleep.

He had been wide awake all day.

He had seen Bobby hiding the peanuts in the old stone wall.

He was sitting up in the maple tree watching him all the time.

"I wonder what Bobby is hiding all those nuts for," he said to himself.

"I think I will wait here and see what he is going to do."

So for a long time Sammy sat still in the maple tree watching Bobby
work.

When the last nut was hidden Bobby skipped off toward home.

"Now is my chance," said Sammy. "I am going to play a trick on Bobby."

Sammy skipped down the tree and ran along the wall to the place where
the nuts were hidden.

He took the nuts out of their hiding place and carried them to a hole
behind the big rock.

It took a long time to do it, but Sammy liked to play tricks.

Back and forth he ran until the very last nut was stored away in the
new hiding place.

Then he skipped around to tell the red squirrels about the joke he had
played on Bobby Gray Squirre