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    Hazel Squirrel and Other Stories
    Hazel Squirrel and Other Stories
    Hazel Squirrel and Other Stories
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    Hazel Squirrel and Other Stories

    By Samuel E. (Samuel Edward) Lowe

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    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      Hazel Squirrel and Other Stories - Samuel E. (Samuel Edward) Lowe

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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 ***

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      FAMOUS ANIMAL STORIES

      Hazel Squirrel

      AND OTHER STORIES

      By

      Howard B. Famous

      FULLY ILLUSTRATED

      Whitman Publishing Co.

      RACINE, WISCONSIN

      COPYRIGHT, 1917, BY

      Whitman Publishing Co.

      RACINE, WIS.

      Printed in United States of America

      CONTENTS

      Page

      In Squirrel Town 7

      Hazel and Bushy-tail Visit Some Strange Lands 15

      Mrs. Screech Owl 26

      The Raccoon and the Bees 41

      Pinkie Whiskers 67

      ILLUSTRATIONS

      Little Hazel Was Playing Far Out on a Leafy Branch ( Frontispiece )

      Page

      I’ll Be Down in a Jiffy 9

      He Held Out Some Nuts to Them 13

      She Rocked Them in her Doll’s Cradle 21

      Mr. Bat Saw Them Huddled Together 23

      Mother Squirrel Entertains Her Visitors 27

      The Squirrels Go on a Picnic 32

      Feasting on Hazel Nuts 36

      The Raccoon Watches the Boys 40

      Yum, Yum, But It Is Fine 48

      Oh, Coonie, Tell Me Where It Is 51

      Chuck Arrived at the Big Oak Tree 55

      He Grabbed Up a Big Stick 59

      HAZEL SQUIRREL

      IN SQUIRREL TOWN

      COME, little sleepy-eyes, it’s time to get up," said Mrs. Squirrel, one morning. But little Bushy-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.

      I’LL BE DOWN IN A JIFFY

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      Hazel, Bushy-Tail began, teetering up and down on the branch in his excitement, I’m sick of peanuts, aren’t you?

      No, she answered, I love them. Mother says they make my coat thick and sleek.

      They were city squirrels, you know, who lived in a park and had their daily supply of peanuts left at their door by the park-keeper.

      No, I am not sick of peanuts, she continued. But what has that to do with your dream?

      Everything, he went on. Oh, Hazel, I dreamed of a most wonderful tree where all kinds of nuts—hickory, walnuts, chestnuts and hazel-nuts—grew side by side on the same branch. We must hurry and get there before they are all gone, and he jumped up so quickly that Hazel went spinning round and round the branch she was holding on to with her sharp little claws.

      Now, Hazel was a good little squirrel who always talked things over with her mother, so as they were hurrying away across the park she suddenly stopped. I forgot to tell mother where I was going, she said.

      Her play-fellow grabbed her by the tail. It’s to be a surprise, he whispered. We will make little baskets of dry twigs and carry home enough for everybody. This sounded fine.

      The pink in the sky was by now beginning to fade. Presently Mr. Sun poked his head over the hilltops far away. He saw the runaway children and he thought to give them a scare that would send them home. So he bounded out from behind a cloud and sent a long, dark shadow right across the path in front of them.

      Oh, my, cried Hazel, what’s that?

      Both children were so startled they jumped straight up in the air and landed on the other side of the dark shadow.

      Let’s go home, suggested Hazel, but when they turned to go they saw their own shadows and of course they knew them. How they laughed then, for who would think of being afraid of a lifeless shadow?

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