As it was, Sandy Chipmunk was paying himself for working for Mr. Crow.
When he reached the pasture Uncle Sammy found Sandy Chipmunkjust starting away to hunt for nuts.
That was the way Sandy Chipmunk always made himself spick and span.
Sandy Chipmunk was surprised when the man stopped beneath the tree and dropped some letters and newspapers into the box.
Sandy Chipmunk didn't know what Rowdy was talking about.
Tamias townsendii cooperi~ Baird Some uncertainty exists concerning the subspecific identity of the Townsend Chipmunk in southern Washington because Dalquest (Univ.
In view of the findings resulting from our study of the above mentioned specimens of the Townsend Chipmunk in Washington, it seemed worthwhile to examine the material of the same species from Hood River, Oregon.
At this the chipmunk went scurrying to safety along the great hemlock and over the sagging roof of the deserted shanty lying at its farther end, where he hid himself in a pile of rock.
As he came on toward the shanty the chipmunk noticed that he bent under the weight of a pack basket loaded with provisions.
Even Mrs. Chipmunk was startled if she heard before she saw her own Mr. Chipmunk coming toward her.
One day the great Shiva saw a little gray chipmunk on the seashore.
Do you all know the little striped chipmunk which lives in our woods?
How theChipmunk Got the Stripes on Its Back 89 Adapted from Edwin Arnold's Poem.
Suddenly, from out of one of the holes, a little pointed nose was thrust, and a second later the first chipmunk of the year darted above ground from the burrow where he had slept out the long winter.
Fortunately for him, however, the next burrow was occupied by a chipmunk of an inquiring disposition.
Then the high alarm-squeal ran up and down the hillside, and every chipmunk within hearing dived underground where they were all safe; for the great weasel is just one size too large to enter a chipmunk's burrow.
The chipmunk had hardly reached the topmost branch, when he felt it sway under the quick, darting motions of his pursuer.
Stopping only to lap a little of the warm blood of its victim, the weasel flashed into the next burrow, where a mother chipmunk slept with her five babies, all rolled up in a round warm ball.
Beyond the black circle of the woods, away from the fatal ledge and through the sunlight, the chipmunk sped, expecting every minute to hear the fierce patter of his pursuer close behind.
Black, sinuous, terrible, a giant blacksnake over six feet in length had found its way from its den on the other side of the hill to the chipmunk colony.
The other chipmunk had the advantage of weight, experience, and position, and Chippy was forced slowly out into the wide world.
Yet the tremendous jaw-muscles of the chipmunk drove the needle-pointed teeth deep into the twisted, over-lapping fibres.
Every chipmunk who passed her front door received such a succession of nips and scratches that he was only too glad to back out again in a hurry.
It happened to be the very one of which the strangerchipmunk had dispossessed Chippy months before.
Erecting his white-tipped tail, he sat up on his haunches and tipping back his head, began to sing the spring song which every chipmunk must sing when he first comes above ground at the dawn of the year.
Bracing his paws against the sides of the hole, the chipmunk gnawed away desperately.
Out of one of his many exits the chipmunk dashed, but as he came above ground, the weasel was hard on his heels, and he turned to do battle for his life.
Swimming deeper, and with slower and more powerful strokes, the chipmunk refused to break his stroke by looking back.
Ever since that day the chipmunk has worn those stripes down the middle of his back.
One day little Charlie Chipmunk disobeyed his mother and went too far away from home.
She knew she must obey, yet how she hated to let such a nice plump chipmunk go.
They sober down, these chipmunk children--they were only born last May--and learn to make homes for themselves.
Sometimes there are as many as three doors; four, maybe, in case of a chipmunk of a particularly nervous disposition.
The marten is possibly their worst enemy, but fortunately for the chipmunk tribe is a rare animal throughout its range.
This chipmunk lives largely in the Transition Life Zone.
The prostrate trunks serve admirably as highways for their forays in search of food, and under the litter which accumulates around them are many havens into which a hard pressed chipmunk may pop when pursued by an enemy.
A field mark that is a positive identification of the chipmunk group is the striped face.
I recall camping at Bryce Canyon National Park where the least chipmunk is a common resident.
The smallest chipmunk with proportionally the longest tail.
Upon our return from Rainbow Point one day we spied a chipmunk with bulging cheek pouches leaving our tent for its den somewhere on the edge of the canyon rim.
They didn't know exactly where to find him, but the chipmunk told them the direction, and off they went.
And it happened that the chipmunk was out that night, digging up some nuts for his Christmas dinner, a little sad because he had no presents to give his children; and he found the three toys.
You know, Santa Claus always drives into the Canine Estates by the little back road through the woods, where the chipmunk lives.
They heard it from the chipmunk who lives in the wood behind the house.
That was only fair, because if it hadn't been for the chipmunk and his radio set, no one would have had any toys that Christmas.
Does the red squirrel hibernate; that is, does he sleep all winter as the chipmunk does?
You can tell it's a chipmunk by the stripes down its back.
Some squirrel or chipmunk must have gathered them in a heap, ready to carry to its nest," said George.
The red squirrel dominates the gray squirrel, which is above him in size and strength, and the chipmunk below him, but he does not exterminate either.
If we ask why the chipmunk hibernates, we get no answer; but if we ask how he does it, we find out that he stores up food in his den, hence must take a lunch between his naps.
The chipmunk burrows in the ground where the red cannot follow him, and he lays up a store of nuts and seeds which the red does not.
And so must I," cried the chipmunk and the beaver, but what the old bullfrog said I will tell you in the next story.
The Chipmunks of Chipmunk Hollow were a very lively, cheerful, sociable race, and on the very best of terms with the Nutcracker Grays.
Wasn't it I that said I knew there was an engagement between Tim Chipmunk and Nancy Nibble, who are married this very day?
I wish good, industrious, painstaking sons like Tip Chipmunk WERE common.
Leon repeated the call a little louder, and with a sudden dash the chipmunkswiftly sped towards him, as suddenly stopping about ten yards away.
Presently, a sound of rustling twigs arrested his attention, and he saw a tiny chipmunk looking at him.
The chipmunk came nearer and nearer, his timidity gradually passing away.
At length the chipmunk makes a dash for the thicket ten feet away and his "chip, chip," rings out excitedly as he reaches the friendly shelter.
Sitting straight up on a mossy log the chipmunk holds in his paws a bit of bread thrown from somebody's basket, nibbles at it for a while and then makes a dash for the thicket, carrying the bread in his mouth.
The chipmunk came every morning for his slice of bread.
From a hole in the side of a fallen log the chipmunk peeps warily, comes out quickly, but whisks back again in fancied fright.
The chipmunk is not the only woods creature preparing for winter during the hottest days of August.
Pursuing a rolling hickory nut, the chipmunk brings a hurricane--but these are elastic trees.
A woodchuck may sit up and gaze at you across the barrier, or a bright-eyed chipmunk scuttle out on a limb for a better view.
Chipmunk knew that if he set fire to the magic tree near Spence's Bridge, the world would become light again, so he set fire to the roots, and kept poking the ashes away with a stick that the wind might fan the flames.
He teased her in the same way that Chipmunk had, and the very fourth time that Grizzly rushed at him, she almost caught him, and scratched him, too.
As Chipmunk scampered into the hole, Grizzly scratched his back.
Now both Grizzly andChipmunk sang as loud and as hard as they could, and sometimes it was light and sometimes it was dark.
But Grizzly Bear was angry at Chipmunk and chased him into a hole.
Therefore the chipmunkhas stripes on his back even today, because Grizzly scratched her in that way.
That is the reason Chipmunk has stripes on his back.
Now Chipmunk did not like the continual darkness, and his friends did not like it, but some of the animals did.
Chipmunk would poke the fire and brush the earth and ashes away and sing, Tse ka, tse ka!
The baby sparrow flew a foot or two, but the elder ran toward him most valiantly, upon which the brave chipmunk took to his heels, scrambled up the stone wall, and disappeared.
One day when it was raining the mother and one infant were out on the usual business, when suddenly they became aware of a chipmunk about eighteen inches from them, and at the same instant he saw them.
His cousins are great climbers and could get the nuts still left on the trees, but Mr. Chipmunk is a poor climber, so he had to be content with those on the ground.
So Mr. Chipmunk went his way happy and contented and he was such a merry little fellow and so full of fun and cut such funny capers that everybody loved Mr. Chipmunk.
Striped Chipmunk ran head first into a big thistle and squealed as much from fear as pain.
Old Mother West Wind, coming down from the Purple Hills very early in the morning, had found Striped Chipmunk up before her and hard at work.
Striped Chipmunk kept right on hopping and skipping down the Lone Little Path.
Striped Chipmunk stopped and took his tongue out of his cheek.
Striped Chipmunk passed the house of old Mr. Toad and told him.
Striped Chipmunk hopped and skipped out of sight, and Danny Meadow Mouse began to cry again because Striped Chipmunk would not play with him.
But Mr. Chipmunk didn't envy his big cousins their fine tails; not he!
Oh, Grandfather Frog," cried the Merry Little Breezes, "tell us how it happens that Striped Chipmunk has pockets in his cheeks.
And Striped Chipmunk stopped long enough to shout "Good-bye" before he filled his pockets with the brown nuts.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "chipmunk" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: animal; antelope; armadillo; bat; elephant; hare; horse; kangaroo; mammal; opossum; pig; rat
