Show t ted ihne iw th Bur buress 11 THE QUEER CASE OF BUSTER BEAR A na WAY he has sunie some qu queer eer aya that ll 11 what peter llah it ah bit thinks and peter ought lu to kaow hut as to 10 that ll 11 Is 13 quite probable that buster thinks some vl of peters vay uilys queer it Is to the nj of the world to think other folk folks queer end rid buster thinks some of peters M 08 queer and I 1 am quite sure that both boll think four your aad mine cry queer indeed to belets way of thinking one of buster luster bears queerest habits Is that of leeping away most of the if 00 el 1444 Z huhl grumbled prickly porky you dont know much about buster bear sy winter Inter since his talk aleli prickly porky the porcupine peter has haq begun to understand why johnny chuck and some of the others went to sleep as soon as cold weather came to stay asleep until BlI mistress stress spring should arrhe they had to sleep or stanc for fer there was none of the food the they need and would lit t be so long as winter lasted but somehow peter seem to make the reason fit the case to Il luster bear buster dian t seem to want to go to sleep steep for the vila an ter lie had firmi prowled led around until after the snow had come to stay iid then and not until then he had h a d stretched out on his bed of leaves under the shelving rock deep in the he keen green forest where he had slept away the last winter and peter knew that they would see no more of him until spring now ow why shoud should he go to sleep for weeks at a time that way peter puzzled and puzzled oer it t as he turned it over in his mind johnny chuck lived on tender green things and in winter time there are no tender green thans ns old mr toad hm lives on worms and DO bugs at knit vast here there are woe none where old hr load can get thein hut but with flus ter dear bear it was different why be keep anake all winter jut just aa as lledo foi fox and old hun ilan coyote do it teemed seemed to peter flet ervery absurd that uch such a great fill fel fell low as bugler blister hear bear of whom very every abdy bod else was afraid and who bad had such a great fur cont coot hould should hide little a nay and sleep just became because it was winter heally he went wen I 1 back buck to prickly porky to try to satisfy his curiosity dear bear Is smart eald bald veter he lie Is one of the smartest ein artest of all the people in the green for est ft ay says that and if it be he Is so an smart why wily can I 1 he catch enough to cat in the tile inter just us as reddy fox and old man ilan coyote lot dol they the don dont I 1 waste their time sleep ins ing and they don doot I 1 starve to they kiy go hungry ame me of tile time molt of us as do that in to bad weather but flat they catch entomb to lire live on hj duster buster hear bear I 1 louill punted grunted prickly porky you dont know much about hueter fluster bear what do you think be he live lives on anyway hy on any of us little people he can an catch replied peter promptly 1 Esery everybody body knovis that then ever everybody body knows that ever everybody body doesn t know nt at all that Is 13 the trouble alth a tot of people they think they know when they dont know how now take the queer case of luster hear bear hury one seems to think that be couse he eats a mouse or a rabbit or some other of the little forest people silly enough not to keep out of his ills reach that be he live lives on them altogether jut jutt as old man ilan coyote docs does that elms shwas how little some folks know about tair neighbors if it old man blan coyote should catch you I 1 letar estr which I 1 hope be won wont you would make biro him a good meal meat hut but you tou nl bo much more thou than a mouthful for duster hear ilear two tiso or three fat fill mice would do pox fox for a whole day da hot but they more than tickle buster lien jach dueler buster cato ment meat when it hap pen peas to fall in n bit way but what he be live lives on mostly ire are roof roots and ber rica ties and nuts and bugs and fish and I 1 frets and he haa has to have a lot of them where 1 liere pray proy tell would he flod find them it t this time ot of the tile year leis Is juet just like johnny chuck and bibby coon cooning and the other deep erched ers era hed tar telf it he I 1 elep steep thank you porky sold peter politely ive learned a lol let eyen even now I 1 cannot help that it li Is ser ars queer such a big strong fellow like duster fluster tear bear all inter vinter anyway I 1 hope be bait pleasant dreams az by byj J ll 11 lloyd service |