“No,” said the fire, “my heat is less than that of the great sun.”
Then Ibbity looked up at the sky, and he called loudly to the sun:
“Oh, great Sun, the tree threw Ibbity, the wind broke the tree, the hill stops the wind, the mouse tunnels the hill, the tiger catches the mouse, the rope catches the tiger, the fire burns the rope, but your heat is greater than that of the fire. Are you not the strongest one?”
Then the sun winked its large yellow eye at Ibbity, and never a word did it say, for it was too far off to hear Ibbity’s little voice.
So Ibbity clapped his hands and cried, “I have found the strongest one. It is the sun.”
And little Ibbity went home again to tell his mother.
THE CHIPMUNK
WHO CHATTERED
TOO MUCH.
Once upon a time, when Indians and animals lived together in the same forest and animals could speak, the Chipmunk was the greatest talker of them all.