| Show m A A III f III E STORY BEDTIME E e l I NI m By y THORNToN W. W V III BUSTER BEAR LOSES HALF HIS FEAST To do a n thing that must be done Theres There's usually more ways than one T TIllS HIS means of course that If one way fails falls you shouldn't give up and you think the tiling thing cannot be done You should try to find some other way Often it will be a most unexpected way a way that you discover by accident There was the case of Busy Bee and her fellow workers when Buster Bear found their storehouse and began to rob It of their honey They had done their best to drive e him away They had used the sharp little little lances In their tails for all they were were worth If it had been anyone but Buster Bear they would have I succeeded In driving the robber I away awny But though they fought fou ht as hard as they could and stung with all aU their might they couldn't drive Buster away a from that honey To Busters Buster's way of thinking that honey was worth all nil the thc pain of the stings And then quite by accident accident occident ac oc- ac- ac they discovered disco a way of getting rid of him Some of them flying about found Farmer Browns Brown's Boy watching what was was was' going on and In the blindness of their anger mistook him for another enemy and promptly treated him as they had bad treated Buster Now Nw Farmer Browns Brown's Boy has no such thick skin as Buster Bear near At Atthe Atthe Atthe the first sting which felt Celt as us if a red-hot red needle had been thrust Into him he jumped from his ills hiding place Before you Jou could say Jack Robinson half hatt a n dozen bees had stung him and a n cloud of them were about him He ne forgot all about Buster Bear He had but one thought and this was that he couldn't get away from that place quick enough It had suddenly become become be be- come como olto altogether ether too hot a pla place e for him bim He lie let out a yell Yes sir he ho let Jet out a yell ell and It was a good loue loud yell yeU Then he started to get getaway away awny from there as fast as ns his legs would take him and he didn't care rore how much noise he made In do- do Ing It Now Buster Duster Bear had been so greedily stuffing himself with honey that he had bad no thought for anything else He had no Idea that harmer Farmer Browns Brown's Boy was nn anywhere near Usually his ears and his nose are I i ever er ready to warn him of ot the presence presence presence pres pres- ence of others but this time his ears were filled with the angry hum of the bees and his nose was clogged with honey So he lie had not heard Farmer Browns Brown's Boy approach approach approach ap ap- and he had not smelled him Then right Into the middle of his enjo enjoyment ment broke that wild yell He lie couldn't help hearing that Now Nov as ass you know the one thing Buster Bear fears Is man He knows all about the dreadful fire- fire sticks which no one but man carries carries carrl car car- rl ries s and at the least suspicion that man Is about Buster runs away If It Ithe he were cornered and couldn't run he would fight as bravely as the bravest but he Is a firm bell believer eer In Inthe Inthe inthe the old saying that he who runs away will live to fight another day when man is concerned The Instant he be heard beard that wild yell he forgot everything but that he was caught in a bad fix fis He was caught up a tree and that was no place for a bear to be with aman aman a n man about even een though that man was only a boy He lost all aU Interest Interest interest In In- terest In honey He had but one thought and that was to get away from fromn there as quickly as ever eer he could To climb down would take too long So Buster simply let Jet go and dropped Yes sir that Is what Buster Bear did dill he let go and dropped Busters Buster's bones bones are not |
