Hazel Squirrel and Other Stories

Howard B. Famous

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Title: Hazel Squirrel and Other Stories Author: Howard B. Famous Release Date: July 16, 2007 [EBook #22087] Language: English

*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HAZEL SQUIRREL AND OTHER STORIES ***

Produced by Mark C. Orton, Linda McKeown, Jacqueline Jeremy and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net

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FAMOUS ANIMAL STORIES

Hazel Squirrel AND OTHER STORIES

By Howard B. Famous

FULLY ILLUSTRATED

W HITMAN  P UBLISHING  C O . RACINE, WISCONSIN

COPYRIGHT, 1917, BY W HITMAN  P UBLISHING  C O . RACINE, WIS. Printed in United States of America

CONTENTS

In Squirrel Town Hazel and Bushy-tail Visit Some Strange Lands Mrs. Screech Owl The Raccoon and the Bees Pinkie Whiskers

Page 7 15 26 41 67

ILLUSTRATIONS

Little Hazel Was Playing Far Out on a Leafy Branch

“I’ll Be Down in a Jiffy” He Held Out Some Nuts to Them She Rocked Them in her Doll’s Cradle Mr. Bat Saw Them Huddled Together Mother Squirrel Entertains Her Visitors The Squirrels Go on a Picnic Feasting on Hazel Nuts The Raccoon Watches the Boys “Yum, Yum, But It Is Fine” “Oh, Coonie, Tell Me Where It Is” Chuck Arrived at the Big Oak Tree He Grabbed Up a Big Stick

(F RONTISPIECE ) Page 9 13 21 23 27 32 36 40 48 51 55 59

HAZEL SQUIRREL

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C Tail was having such a nice dream about a wonderful tree where all kinds of nuts grew side by side on the same branch that he did not answer. Only his eyelids quivered ever so little, so his mother knew he was pretending. “Come, come!” she repeated. “Little Hazel Squirrel is up and playing outside.” In a twinkling he had jumped out of bed and pressed his furry little nose against the window pane. Little Hazel was playing far out on a leafy branch with one eye on Bushy-Tail’s house, nestled in a forked limb close to the trunk. She waved her lovely gray tail when she saw him and began chattering very fast. “Wait a minute,” Bushy-Tail called back, “I’ll be down in a jiffy.” And he was in such a hurry that he tied his tie on sideways and brushed his furry tail the wrong way, which made him look very funny. He even forgot to take a bite of the nice breakfast his mother had left on the table for him. Right through the window he bounded, instead of walking through the door as he had been taught to do, and landed close beside Hazel, far out on the leafy bough. “Oh, Hazel,” he cried, “I’ve had the loveliest dream!” “You old sleepy-head,” she answered, “you lay abed dreaming when you might be out playing in the fresh air.”

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IN SQUIRREL TOWN

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Hazel was not a bit hungry, so she put the nut in the pocket of one of her cheeks, which made her look as if she had the mumps. Then she ran up the workman’s arm and perched on his shoulder, where her soft, bushy tail brushed against his ears and tickled him in the neck. Poor little Hazel Squirrel. Little did she think the wonderful tree they were looking for was only a dream-tree. But how was she to know that all kinds of nuts never did, nor ever can grow side by side on the same branch, save only in the wonderland we enter through the gates of sleep. “I don’t see your wonderful tree anywhere, Bushy-Tail,” she said. “I think it’s down this way a little,” he answered. And once more they scampered off together, chattering and waving their lovely tails. Back to contents

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HAZEL AND BUSHY-TAIL VISIT STRANGE LANDS

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