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Title: Hazel Squirrel and Other Stories

Author: Howard B. Famous

Release Date: July 16, 2007 [EBook #22087]

Language: English

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[Illustration]

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 tr