Show CINNAMON BEARS By Izora Chandler Two little boys lived In a queer log house which leaned against tho foot of a hilL The hill was tall and round and it was stuck as full of trees LlSa cushion is of pins Now the black mammy who took care of the queer log H houeo loved the two little boys Some times she mixed si great lot of sweet dough and cut it Into pieces each one I of which she rolled until It looked like an overgrown marble that had been stretched to double Its length ThTjn she pulled an1 twisted four little legs out on one side and a queer pointed head on the top after this she set It down hard upen the table with the funny lit tic head looking directly up into the roof When all the pies of dough had been patted und rolled and coaxed she loosed them into a kettle of hotline fut where they bobbed and swelled and grew rich and brown When they were dipped carefully out and act again In a long row upon the kitchen 1 table any little boy with oyes In his head could see that they were bears And after the mammy had tucked a tiny stick of cinnamon under the right arm of each in I such a way that It leaned ngalnot the right shoulder why tho whole long low became cinnamon lI bears of course and nobody who hasnt eaten one can imagine how very good to eat they areOne One night when the two little boys were In bed they overheard their father j and some men who lived In other queer og houses at the foot ot the hill plan ning to go In the early morning away up on the hillside to capture cave full of cinnamon beans The two little boys thought It very selfish of the men to leave them out of the plan for nobody could care as much for cinnamon bears as they So when the house was still and the full moon made everything bright out of doors they crept out of bed dressed themselves und stole softly out to capture the cinnamon hears They climbed and climbed until they grew very cold and tired but a whole cave full cinnamon bears My how their at little legs hurried on By and by the little legs would go no farther The two little boys cuddled down together and went to sleep just o tsldroC a big hole In the hill Pretty soon It was morning and tho little boys wakened Hoi e was the cnI1d they were hungry They would go In and eat a dozen or two of the cinnamon bcarj and they were go Ing to be very generous and sayo a few for their father and the selfish men But there were shining spots moving about In the cave They beard padding footsteps and panting breaths Anid two brown monsters came out after them The little boys screamed like Indians and tried to run away but they were caught by the gzeat shaggy paws with sharp claws in them and held so tightly that they could hardly I breathe Bang1 bans cane a great noise Some thing seemed to hit the great crea lures in the head for they rolled over upon the ground just nc the father of the little boys and one of the selfish men came running up The father and the selfish man were very near whIte and bigeyed and though the little boys could Walk very well they carried them every step of the way home Arid if youll believe It the black mammy spent all the rest dt that day mixing and rolling and twist Ing and frying the sweet dough And aa she worked she kept saying over and over Dab dah1 Mammys little honey boys Doan joh go no mo a huntjn cause yore mammys baby buntins an shell make you caves an caves of bufolo crumpy dumpy cinnamon bears |