1. "No, indeed, " answered Gruntle. "We need all our clothes for ourselves. Tell her to go home and stop bothering us! "

2. But whatever it was that Curly Tail did, Gruntle and Snuffle and Snuggle always tried to do something bigger.

3. So Gruntle and Snuffle and Snuggle came to live with Curly Tail, so that they might learn to be unselfish like him.

4. "No! " answered Gruntle sternly, "We feed no beggars at our house. Tell him to go somewhere else. We need all our soup for ourselves. "

5. "Please, Master Gruntle, " answered Diggery, "it is only Bushy Tail Squirrel, asking for something to eat.

6. Although he wasn't actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.

7. And so Diggery carried Curly Tail's soup out to poor Bushy Tail, and asked him in to stay the night, but Gruntle and Snuffle and Snuggle were all of them angry about it.

8. But it cost a great deal of money, so that Gruntle and Snuffle and Snuggle were not so rich after it was over.