Show ad voa by thornton W c burr burgess ce s s OLD MR AIR TOAD RECEIVES ANOTHER invitation LD MR MH TOAD was so puffed up 0 01 with pride that he had become quite unbearable to his old friends and neighbors and all because he had dined with buster bear ho he thought it an honor a very great honor to have been invited to dine with one for whom every one had such a very great respect as they had for bus buster ter bear and because he be felt that it was such a very great honor he puffed himself out with pride and felt himself so far above his old friends and neighbors t J A C old mr toad was so puffed up with pride that ile he had become quite unbearable that he would have nothing to do with any of them excepting bobby coon who you know is a little cousin of buster bear at first everyone had laughed at old mr toad but after a little they grew tired of being treated so and some of them put their heads together to think of some plan to teach old mr toad a lesson and what a very foolish thing false pride is the very next day jimmy skunk went into the green forest to look for buster bear you know jimmy afraid of buster he have to look long and when he had found him the very first thing lie he did was to ask buster if he had seen any fat beetles that morning you know jimmy is very fond of fat beetles and the first thing he asks anyone he may happen to meet is if they have seen any buster bear grinned and said he thought he knew where there might be a few and he would be pleased to have jimmy go with him to see sec sure enough under an old log he found five fat beetles and these jimmy gobbled up without asking buster if he would have one jimmy is usually very polite but this time he quite forgot politeness I 1 am afraid lie he is rather apt to when fat beetles are concerned but buster seem to mind when the last beetle had disappeared jimmy smacked his lips and then he told buster bear what he had come for of course at first buster had thought it was for the fat beetles but it no sir it for the fat beetles at all it was to get buster bears help in a plan to teach old mr toad a lesson first jimmy told buster all about how puffed up old mr toad was because he had dined with buster and how ever since then he had refused to even speak to his old friends and neighbors it tickled buster bear so to think that little homely old mr toad could be proud of anything that he laughed and laughed and his laugh was ivas deep and grumbly then jimmy told him the plan to teach old mr toad a lesson and asked buster if he would help busters austers Bu eyes twinkled as he promised to do what jimmy wanted him to do then jimmy went straight to where old mr toad was sitting all puffed up taking a sun bath buster bear has just sent word by me to ask you if you will honor him by dining with him tomorrow at the chestnut stump near the edge of the green forest said jimmy in his politest manner now if old mr toad was puffed up before just think how he swelled out when he heard that jimmy skunk was actually afraid that he would burst you may tell my friend buster bear that I 1 shall be very happy to honor him by dining with him replied old mr toad with a very grand air jimmy went off to deliver his reply and old mr toad sat and pad puffed himself out until he could hardly breathe honor him b by Y dining with him said he over and over to himself 1 I never was so flattered in my life and that night he refused to speak to bobby coon even though bobby was cousin to buster bear Q T W burgess service |