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Updated: June 9, 2025
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."
I do not know what in the world would have happened if Grandpa Grumbles had not come sailing along just then. He came sailing down in his green cotton umbrella and said, looking hard at Bushy-Tail, "Jump inside and have a ride, There's room for you and me beside." Bushy-Tail jumped into the umbrella. He was pleased you may be sure.
Bushy-Tail said, "Go get Snubby Nose and Tippy Toes for me or I will eat you all up!" They all went into the house. They pretended to look for Snubby Nose and Tippy Toes, though they knew they had gone away. They looked in every nook and corner, but knew well enough that Snubby Nose and Tippy Toes had gone sailing away with Grandpa Grumbles. Bushy-Tail was angry.
Snubby Nose and Tippy Toes sat as still as they could in their little chairs by the fire and never winked an eyelash. Bushy-Tail said, "Let me in or I will come down the chimney, fire or no fire." Then Snubby Nose coughed and Tippy Toes sneezed. Bushy-Tail climbed the roof once more. Out came the smoke in great puffs. He gave it up and then went away down the path growling every step of the way.
Once they ran into a garden where some little girls were having a tea-party. The children called to the squirrels and held out sweet, sticky things for them to eat. They were scampering back along the wall when a thoughtless little boy, who had not been invited to the party, threw a tiny stone at Bushy-Tail. It hit right in the center of his tail.
"Who will visit us to-day?" The mirror answered, "Bushy-Tail is on his way." Snubby Nose said, "What fun it is to have the mirror talk. Come, let us bolt the doors and windows. We will not let Bushy-Tail in." They danced again before the mirror and sang, "We're locked in safely, that we know," The mirror said, "Down the chimney he can go."
Snubby Nose and Tippy Toes said, "Oh" and "Ah," and "Oh" and "Ah." "We never thought of the chimney! What shall we do with the chimney?" They built a roaring fire, and none too soon, for they could hear the "patter, patter, patter" of feet upon the roof. Bushy-Tail climbed down from the roof. He looked in at the window and said, "Please let me in, please let me in."
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.
Bat told her what he had seen she jumped right out of bed and ran down the tree without stopping to take an umbrella or put on her rubbers even. Of course she was disappointed when she saw only Hazel and Bushy-Tail! "They are city squirrels," she told Mr. Bat. "We have only red ones here in the woods. I can't imagine how these little squirrels got so far from home alone."
Hazel took her blue-bordered handkerchief out and wrapped it around the hurt place as best she could. "Oh, Bushy-Tail," she sobbed, "how I wish my mother were here. She would know just what to do for you," and great tears began to roll down her cheeks. It made Bushy-Tail feel so badly to see his little playmate unhappy that for the minute he forgot all about his sore tail.
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