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Show BADDY'S pl EVEMSMO ig FAIRY TALE 11.1 Mary Graham Bonner POLAR BEAR'S IDEAS "I'm a big creature and you would think they would ask me what my ideas were on the sub- ject. "Such a big creature as I am should have some pretty big ideas. "Ideas and size may not always go together, but I shall put them together to-gether in my case, and if anyone contradicts con-tradicts me, or says it isn't so well, will they want to argue It out with me? "I very much doubt It." Their Own Furs. The Polar Bear was talking. He paced up and down his yard and looked out, at times, over the heads of the people. His head kept moving all the time he talked to himself and he was very angry. an-gry. "They should ask me what kind of weather I want and I would tell them I wanted winter weather. "They do their own furs up In camphor cam-phor halls and such things for the summer, I've heard them say. "But I can't do my fur coat up In camphor balls. No, I can't do that. "And I wouldn't If I could. I would not care to be wrapped in camphor balls. No, Indeed I "But, anyway, I have to keep my coat on In the summer-time and it is no Joke. "Of course, my coat Isn't a joke, but what I meant was that it was no Joke to have to wear such a heavy coat all through the hot summer. "That is why I think they should have asked my advice about the weather. "I would have told them : " 'Please serve it good and .'old the colder the better. Put it on Ice and keep It there and then bring it along with the ice, too.' "That Is what I would have told them. "Perhaps they cannot do anything nbout the weather themselves, but I would have liked to have had a talk with that Old Weather Man they speak about. "Yes, I would like to have had a tall with him. In fact, I would be read; for a talk with him at any time. 1 would tell him a few things. "And I would not have my best man ners with me. either. I would' sho what a temper I have. "Oh, they know I have a temper and they know I won't become tame. "But I would tell that Old Weathe) Man what I thought of this heat. "Maybe others tell hiin, too. I don't think any one likes it as hot as It is now, but to me It is just too dreadful. "I have a sneaking idea that Old Weather Man has a bad disposition and that you can't do much with him any more than you can with me. "Well, In that case, I know what sort he is. "But, oh, dear, the heat is so dreadful. dread-ful. True, they give me plenty of ice, and I sit upon it, but it melts so fast, and my coat Is so heavy. "I am never too cold. 1 am too hot all summer long. It may he ail right for those who like to wear light clothes and to picnic pic-nic and all that, hut I love cold, bracing air. "(Hi. dear. oh. dear, my Ulcus are that heat is all wrong. Hint Old HI ifl Man Weather is u The Heat ,s Sc bad old soul nnd Dreadful, that maybe he is something like me you can't do much with him. "All. there comes a big piece of Ice from the keeper. I shall sit on it in my pool and I shall try to keep a little cool. "But It Is hnrd work. "There Is no harder work In the world than to try to keep cool when it is hot." |