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"You could squeeze in, through that little round
hole," said Goody Tiptoes. "Yes, I could," said the
Chipmunk, "but my husband, Chippy Hackee,
bites!"
Down below there was a noise of cracking nuts
and nibbling; and then the fat squirrel voice and
the thin squirrel voice sang—
"For the diddlum day
Day diddle dum di!
Day diddle diddle dum day!"
Then Goody peeped in at the hole, and called
down—"Timmy Tiptoes! Oh fie, Timmy Tiptoes!"
And Timmy replied, "Is that you, Goody Tiptoes?
Why, certainly!"
He came up and kissed Goody through the hole;
but he was so fat that he could not get out.
Chippy Hackee was not too fat, but he did not
want to come; he stayed down below and
chuckled.
