Show A B bear story A fable for P a r the f children dy by MARY GRAHAM BONNER DONNER U a man who takes around a it performing bear only has one bear will with him but this man had two tuo and this happened quite a long ago he ile eing slog tongs songs in a queer sort of voice and in queer sort of language but at the end be he would mould annais bay Tic I lense aee ladles ladies and gentlemen bos and girls give pennies nickels dimes and quarters gu iii artere arters for the work of my fine bears fifty cents arenide are nice too tho bears had albos performed many tricks when the man enid sold this one day a little girl eald said how illow about ten cents center hut but the man know ft hat ten cents meant he had only heard them called dimes and in the coun try from aich he came crime they had quite a different came name for money at any rate he stayed in this town for quite a few days and made a rood good deal of money for t Ms Is bears did very one tricks and the people enjoyed seeing them now one of the bears was quite happy walking around the streets and doing his tricks every day ills master was kind and he gave him plenty of food and he lie cot got bit ter food than then ever on the daya be did bis his tricks best of course you can understand that for on such daya days the man got more money and he liked to give his bli tears lears cice vice thins things to cat hut but the other bear did not like doina trick tricks lie ile wai was tired of performing he ile a as becoming old and he mt fit it n as a great etrain for him lie ile particularly disliked having to climb a pole and that vas a the tile 06 IV doing his HI tricks every day trick that always cot got the tile most money and the greatest amount of 0 praise lie have haie minded climb inc ine a tree bat but he did dislike abole po c and how he lie did bate hate to daure on his bind blind legs particularly now that be he KW wai grom groning old it dian didn t eera seem a dig thine thing for on an old bear to do alter the roan man tind find gone to sleep bleep land tho it bears v ere supposed to be asleep too hy thoy would talk our the addye worl work they had to elsper very gently for if they reilly talked it bould v wake up the whole country around and they be most unpopular lir I 1 ill ell said sold the second the tile old cr er be heir ir 1 I am to so tired of being made to dance lance it Is so 30 silly too people like lo 10 0 o ee se bear bears dance on two legs lei become hey they lae haie four and ne e dont nek ask then t to dance on one leg because they haie liae two it would mould be juit as sensible if it me asked them to do this I 1 the beir laughed la in a ton low tone the trouble ouIe tr I 1 it I 1 am old and these things bc em my cry silly to me I 1 wish I 1 dida didel I 1 have to do ony any more 11 and the lie he bei t 1 s wish came crime true he ile nas ciren given to a zoo after this aija IB ile never hod had to do any more horki it was really time tor for him to rest he ile had corked bard hard and long and he was tio tto old to be asked to dance on his hind legs A 1111 1131 1 heern stern newspaper union |