Show YS t a enin E ii g e F Fairy Lir iry T Tale le Y f frN rN GRAHAM lAM BONNER 1111 U UNION GMT U If BEAR CHATS Of course said sail Mr Bear I UI used to live In the woods Of Of c course o 0 u r l' B s e said sald the the other bears Wo Weve v e e eI I heard you tell teU so so many stories stories' of those those- wonderful wonder wonder- ful days t W We e h have n e heard you tell teU of adventures a and nd narrow escapes of all nil sorts of I thrilling exciting L things r n I like the zoo can continued tJ n u e d Mr Bear Dear and the theM theand M keeper and I are areT great friends But Butone Butry T Trying ry I ng t to 0 C Cool 00 I one ono thing ng a always 1 wa S 'S Herself seems so funny to me mc I d dont don't nt understand It it What Is that asked the other bears The winter has come cone and gone said Mr Bear Bear and we wo have been d doIng doing do do- Ing Just the same as usual If we had d been free we would have been filling up our tummies with b berries berries ber ber- r- r ries rles and all sorts of goodies so that w we wouldn't have hav wanted to eat anything anything any any- ny- ny thing until the early spring We would have gone to sleep for forthe forthe the winter r rIf If we wo had had been free but here bere In the zoo of course we Now the p prairie dogs went to sleep Just the same as though they had bad been out of the zoo zoo In or or out out of th the zoo they do the same But But we we d do differently I We Wo arent aren't allowed to e eat t a great great great deal which would last us usall usall usall all winter The k keeper sees that ha we get fed ed regular regular meals meals so IC that h t we cant can't sleep p or rather so so that we dont don't want to to togo go goto goto goto to sleep for so long a time I Nhen When we are are rire free we we have great greaf autumn feasts and then great winter sleeps Bleeps but here In the zoo we ea eat when the keeper fee feeds us and ansa we sleep regular lar dally daily or nightly y sleeps and little naps t too o. o But It always always seems very veri ctr strange to me continued Mr Bear when the c e autumn has passed and I I find myself still awa awake e looking ng around at the people and the snowstorms and the winter Still I believe bellev In changing ones one's ways to suit the place one is In so Inthe In the zoo I live zoo ways and wizen when free I live free wa ways s. s 7 And the We other bears all agreed ed that they thought It best to do Just the same Then Thea Mrs 1 Polar Bear began to speak Listen Listen chiI children en boys and and girls iris she growled glo as s she sat trying to cool cool herself upon u unon a big biS' cal cake of ot ice which the keeper leepe had given to her nil all think It Is hot and You youre you're right Gracious mercy me but youre you're right It is hot and anel it seems hott hotter r than ever eyer though I think that every summer Now I 1 Isee see you ou w walking about and and you yon take tate out your handkerchiefs and you mop your foreheads and fan yourselves ves You Yon go in wading and swimming wl whenever enever you can and you eat Ice cream too oo whenever you canI canI canI can I have no objection to any of ot these things which you do But Just remember remember remember re- re member children and tell your yur cI daddies and your mothers to remember remember ber It too Remember that youve you've all put your furs away for the summer that youve you've put away your winter clothes and youve you've taken out summer ones You wear short s sleeves eeves and often you dont don't wear stockings But the polar bears cant can't change their clothes lothes They have no nC summer outfit They do not store away their clothes They cantAn cant And An what Is more moie in the winter you not only bundle up but you live In houses which ar are warm Im I'm t told Id and you ou n never ver go swimming In ice ice- caked pools or anything like that i A AI iI I But the polar be bears rs do No weather er Is too cold for them In the winter they love Ice too So can an you Imagine Imag ine lne what It I Is to them in the summer summer sum sum- mer rarer when they cant can't put nut on cool things and w when eu they hey hey arent aren't nearly so used to the heat as you a are e No Nothey Nothey the they arent aren't used to It for the home of ot the polar bears Is far tar up Nor North t h where h 0 r 0 there are Icebergs and where the weather Is is' never J of f the he kind that Oft Often en Y You ou D Dont Don't I makes people fan ont W Wear ear Stockings themselves So dont don't complain of the heat hent too I much for there are others who feel teel It mor more than you ou Ah Alt there here is some sonic someone one who knows it added Mrs 1 Polar Bear Dear as the keeper put another huge hUle I chunk of Ice In her hel yard something something i which he did man many times S these leso hot hot days j |