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Show AARY GRAHAA -BONNER. cofTUGfti tr uium onrymi vtc MORE BEAR CHATTER "If I were only free." said Mr. Brown Bear, "I would go to sleep for 1 me wuuer. "You are complaining," com-plaining," growled Mr. Polar Bear from his den nearby. near-by. "That's so, you are," said Mrs. Polar Bear. "You pride yourself your-self on having such a good disposition. "You always brag and boast that you don't rulnd the weather, and you are always al-ways talking of The Little BroWn tIle fuss the lion3 Bears make when a storm is approaching. "You're conceited, that's all. "You haven't a good disposition." "My dear Mrs. Tolar," said Mr. Brown Bear, "I was simply remarking that if I were free I would sleep for the winter. "I did not say that I wished to be free, nor that I wished to sleep for the winter. "I was telling you an Interesting fact." "Interesting?" sniffed Mrs. Polar Bear, throwing her head up in the air haughtily. "You are always talking about sleeping for the winter when you're free. I get tired of hearing It." "But maybe some don't know it." "It's not your fault If they don't," said Mrs. Polar. "But It is an Interesting fact," continued con-tinued Mr. Brown Bear. "If I were free I would eat and eat and eat, and then I would sleep and sleep and sleep. "I would not need any food through the winter as I would live on my own fat. "Here In the zoo I am fed regularly every day and so I don't get a chance to eat an enormous meal to last me the winter through. "But I am just as happy eating and sleeping regularly as if I ate a great deal at a time and then slept for a number of months." Just then the keeper came to feed the bears. The little brown bears who had never HVed anywhere but in the zoo were getting Mr. Brown Bear to tell them more tales of his life when he was free. They had not heard the story before be-fore and, anyway, they liked to hear some of the facts about their family history often enough so they would be certain not to forget them. The keeper went to the polar bears first. Now Mrs. Polar Bear was feeling feel-ing rather cross. She thought Mr. Brown Bear was entirely too superior. "I'll take it out on you," she growled angrily to the keeper. "Y'ou spoil those brown bears ; yes, you do. I'll go for you." And before the keeper had a chance to escape Mrs. Polar Bear had started for him and was about to hurt him so badly that she wouldn't have cared if she had killed him, when Mr. Polar Bear stepped in the way and with a terrific shove he got her aside. The keeper got out just in time. "Those polar bears are angry and have bad dispositions," he said to him-. him-. self, "but Inst the same, Mr. Polar saved my life. "He Is far kinder kind-er than his wife." Mr. Polar was speaking to Mrs. Polar. "You ate up your last children," chil-dren," he said, "because you said they annoyed you in the zoo. and now you want to kill the keeper. "You're a wretch 1 A great, cruel Ik w j $ j Jk w wv f Lyjs, bear wretch!" Feeing Rather But the keeper Cross, was safe and the brown bears played with . him and were as gentle as could be, for they were trying to say as hard as they could : "We love you, good keeper, the nice brown bears love you and thank you for your kindness." And the keeper knew what their low growls meant ! |