Show dime Thornton W 7 B jt THE QUEER CASE OF DUSTER BUSTER BEAR BEARA BEARA I IA A A sAY s 1 A AY Y he has hns some queer queer ways That Is what Peter tab bit thinks and Peter ought to know kno j But as to that It Is quite probable I bat Buster Busler thinks some of Peler Peters s sI I ays queer It Is the way of the world to think other folks queer qUler and Buster Busier thinks some of Peter Peters s st ways nys queer and I 1 am quite sure t that both botti think your ways ays ays and mine very queer Indeed To fo Peler Peters s way of thinking one or of Buster Bear Bears s queerest habits Is that of sleeping away awny most of or thet the t i r rt t d s sF F r ra a i it tr trl l t 1 Huhl Huh Grumbled Prickly Porky Vou You Dont Don't Know Much About I Buster Bear winter Since his talk ft with lIh Ith Prickly PorI Porky the Porcupine Peter has be- be begun be begun gun gum to understand why Johnny Chuck and some of ot the others went to sleep as soon as cold weather came to stay asleep until Mistress SprIng should arrive They had to sleep or starve stane for there was wis none or of the food they need and wouldn t be BO so lon long as winter Inter lasted but somehow Peter couldn t seem to tomake tomake make the rea reason on fit Ot the case to Buster Bear Buster didn't seem to want to go to sleep for the win winter winter ter lie He hid pro prowled led around until after the snow had come to stay find and then and not until then he had stretched out on his bed of or i leaves l es under the shelving rock deep In lu the Creen reen rarest where he had bad slept away the last Inter and Peter knew v that they would see no more of If him until spring t ov O why shoud should he go to sleep 1 ir t r weeks eels at a time that was Peter reter puzzled and puzzled over oser 0 er It Itai n ai he turned It over oser 0 er In his mind Child 11 lived ed on tender green grum things and In winter time there sire are no tender lender green things Old Sir Mr Ir Toad lives on worms and bugs At least IMst there ore are none where Old STr lr load can an get them But BUI with ter Bus Bus- Buster Buster ter Bear hear it was as different Why t he be keep awake o all winter JU Just I as Roddy Reddy I ox and Old Man lIan Coyote do It seemed to 10 Peter very that such u a great greit bl big tel fel tellow fellow fellow low as Buster r Bear of or whom every ery everybody everybody body else was as afraid and who ho had such a great greit warm arm fur coat coat hide bide away assay und and sleep just because It Was winter I he went back to Prickly Pori y to try to satisfy his curiosity Buster luster Bear Is smart said Pe Pe- Peter Pe- Pe Peter Peter ter lie Is 18 one of the smartest or of all the people In the Green Eor l or ore orest e est t bod says that thit And If he Is 5 so smart why can t he catch enough to eat in the winter Just as ns Reddy Heddy ro Fox Foa and Old Man Coyote do They dont don't waste their time sleep sleeping sleepIng In ing and they don t starve to death They may go hungry some of the time Most Moct of or us do that In bad weather welther But nut they catch enough to live on on Why doesn't Buster Bear I grunted Prickly Porky You don t know much about Bus nus Buster ter Bear Benr What do you think he be lines es on anyway t II SS liy hy on any of us little people i he can catch replied Peter prompt promptly promptly ly Iy everybody ir 1 know knows s tha that tI I I then I hen es c everybody er cry body kno knows 8 something that ever everybody body doesn t I 1 now at nil all That Is s the trouble with a n lot or of they people they think they Uley know when they don t know Isow ow take tahe the queer case of Buster Bucter Bear ery Bearn I uy one seems to think that thai be sauce uce he be cats eats a mouse or a n rabbit or some other oilier of ot the little forest p people le silly enough not to keep heep out or of his reach that he lives on them altogether just as Old Man Ian Coyote does docs That shows ShO how little some folks know now about their lr neighbors It If Old OltI Van Man Coyote Corole should catch you Peter which 1 I 1 hope he won t t you I would make mahe him a n good meat meal But you wouldn't be much more than a mouthful for tor Butter Bunter Bu ter Bear Two or three fat mice would do teddy vox rox I for a whole day but they wouldn't more than tickle Buster Bear s stomach stomach ach Buster eats meat when It hap happens happens happens pens to fall In his way but what he lines es on mostly are roots and her ber herries rles and nuts and antI bugs and fish and andI I frogs and he has lias to b trice hive e a lot lotof lotof lotof of them W here pray tell would he find them at this tills time Ime of the 1 rear lie He Is just like Johnny Chuck and Bobby Coon and the other sleep e ere he he he d starve stare star e If he didn t sleep I hank you Prickly said Peter politely I ve ye learned a n lot lot lot ot let lei even now I 1 cannot help feeling I that It Is verb ver queer sucha such a bl bb strong trong fellow like Buster Bear BLar Bi should sleep all ill winter Anyway Any I 1 hope he be has pleasant dreams Q c by J 0 Lloyd W U Service |