Show BEDTIME STOR by THORNTON W BURGESS BUSTER BEAR IS PIGGISH N OW would nit you suppose that when there la Is plenty for every body everybody would be content ed cd and happy hut but often alla gether too it isn I 1 so at all the mole moie folks have the dorethe no nio rethe want and there are other folks folk no matter how dow much they have seen baem to think that others may bo be baving something better and in fitted of making the most of what they have go about to ing to get alint alic ir vel ebors have it seemed it really did that there these nuts are mine all mine he roared were wera enough of those queer three sided aided little brown browa nuts under the beeth beech tree for everybody to bave all lio lie could eat and that beach nut pic cilc that beautiful octobie morning should hould be the merriest happ happiest lest kind ind of a 0 pic picnic tile out but it aan t no air it wasn gasn L the reason was the of fluster buster tear bear ahen hea buster arrived under tile beeth beech trees and saw so many others gathered there for the very same dame purpose that had brought him there lie he away let selfishness get the best of him he fie was reely freetly wats was custer cluster near bear ile was waa so greedy that hoe he could rit t bear to see anyone else iet acet a one of those little brown bromn sweet nuts although he anew w atell ell enough that tie lie con ddn I 1 ent eat all of them to save ills hie life tight away he bearn to growl and you know hla his groa growl I 1 Is deep aej grumbly and not at all pleasnat plea snot nat to hear bear those who were nearest him moved off a little further but went right on picking up those brown broin sweet I 1 ae e nuts fluster bear growled zuie and hla his growl grow wag waa deeper and more grumbly all the other little people looted looked at htiu him anxiously but kept right on oil hunting lot foi those brown sweet little nuts then buster hinr ar quito quite lost ills temper these nuts are mine all mine he roared then he ran at tile the daei I 1 lightfoot Ight foot bounded boun deil away but not far lie ile knew that ouster buster pear could not catch chipi and he be had ab nb mind to ln len e those nuts auta iff n buster rustled rushed at the gobbler fai fairilla rilly and all the gobblers ried away each in a different dl di but they dian didn t go far then buster rushed this way and rushed that way wherever he saw flaw anyone imply up P nuts mrs litro grouse merely carted arted behind a ralian tree find and the minute flus bus tera buck back was turned she was scra scratching thing over leaves in search of nuts again sammy jay and red led head the woodpecker merely lew flew up in a tree chatterer th llod squirrel and happy jack the gray squirrel and une unc billy aj mrs mra possum climbed the nearest trees out but they were back on the ground again as soon as buster had turned away bleter rabbit who was hiding near to see all that went on had to laugh ile he could lit help it I 1 herp was great big buster dear bear so ao pig that be wanted all yet get ting ling hardly a taste because he fie wax was spending his time chasing his neigh bors bora it often Is that way with ft ath people in trying to get more than their share aney fall fail to get what they might have as well as not DT T W burgess |