The animals seated themselves around a big fire. The porcupine said, “We have a great question to decide. It is this: ‘Shall we have daylight all the time or night all the time?’”
All the animals began to talk at once. Some wanted one thing, some another. The bear wanted it to be dark all the time. In his big, deep voice he said, “Always night! Always night!”
The little chipmunk, in a loud, high voice, said, “Day will come! Day will come!”
The council was held at night. While the animals were talking the sun rose. The bear and the other night animals were angry. The chipmunk saw the light coming, and started to run away. The angry bear ran after him and struck him on the back with his paw.
Since then, the chipmunk has always had black stripes on his back, and daylight always follows night.
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Rewrite these sentences, filling the blank spaces:
The chipmunk —— black stripes.