By the Roadside (Dunn and Troxell)/Curly Locks and the Fluffy Tails

Curly Locks was a little girl who lived near the roadside. Her home was a big white house. An old oak tree shaded the house. A pair of bluebirds had a nest in a hole in the tree.
Curly Locks liked the shade of the oak tree when the sun was hot. Every day she came out of doors to play on the grass. She brought her dolls with her.
One day Curly Locks saw a little gray squirrel sitting up eating an acorn. She at once liked him and called him Fluffy Tail. Fluffy Tail's body was only about ten inches long. His tail was as long as his whole body. It curved like a plume over his humped back.
When the squirrel saw Curly Locks,

​he was afraid. He dropped the acorn and up the tree he flashed to his nest. His tail waved behind him like a banner. He was gone so quickly that Curly Locks thought it might have been a wood fairy.
That night Curly Locks told her father about the little gray squirrel. Her father knew about the squirrel. He said Fluffy Tail and his mate had come to the oak tree to live only a few days before.
The squirrels had been living in a beech tree farther down the road. It was not a very safe place. Dogs barked at them and chased them. A pair of bluejays that had a nest in

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