2 the woodchuck came bumbling along the shoulder of route 119 , headed in the direction of chester 's mill , although the town was still a mile and a half away and even jim rennie 's used cars was only a series of twinkling sunflashes arranged in rows at the place - where the highway curved to the left.the chuck planned ( so far as a wood-chuck can be said to plan anything ) to head back into the woods long before he got that far .