Show BEDTIME STORY 0 dy by THORNTON IV BURGES BUn GESS BUSTER BEAR LOSES HALF HIS FEAST to do a thing that must be done there theres a usually more nays ays than thin one HIS means ot of course that it THIS a wiy way falls you ghe up and you think the thing canno be done ton yon should try to find some other way it u will III be a ia t unexpected way wily a way that you discover by accident there was the case of bury bee and her fetlow workers when buster bear found their storehouse and began to rob it of 0 honey they had bad done their best to drive him away they had used the sharp little lances la in their tails for all they were worth it if it had bad been anyone but buster hear bear they would have succeeded in la driving the robber away but though they foch as hard as they could and stung with all fill gieir might they drive buter bucter away from that honey to buster busters way of thinking that lioney honey was wirth all the pain of the stings and thim quite by accident they discovered a I way of potting gettin 7 rid of him film some of hem fling about found farmer downs itly watching what aa BBS going rn n 11 31 ill id in the blindness of their anger 11 sook him for another enemy i nd rill promptly treated him as they 1 i d treated blister buster now farmer browns boy has no ahli salli thick skin as buster bear at hie the first sting which felt as it a red hot needle had been thrust into him he lumped jumped from his hiding biding place before you could bay say jacl jack robinson lilt a dozen bees bad had stung him and a cloud of them were about him lle forgot all rill about buster bear lie ile had but one and this was that be he couldn coulden t get away from that place quick enough it had suddenly become alto altogether ether sether too hot a place for him he ile let out a yell tell yes sir be let out a yell and it was a good loca yell then he be started to get away from there as fast as his legs would take him and ha care how much noise he be Os vala n u do IDS ing it now buster bear ha PT no so greedily stuffing hiros hims if with honey that he had no thought for anything else lie ile had bal no idea that farmer browns boy was vins anywhere near usually his ears and his nese are ever ready to era him of the presence of others but this time his cars filled jieh the angry bum of the bed bets and ard bis his nose was clogged with hanei so he had bad not heard beard farmer former Bro browns vins boy approach and be bad not smelled him then right into the middle of hia his enjoyment broke that wild yell he lie help bearing that now as you know the one thing buster bear fears Is man lie knows all about the dreadful fire are sticks which no one but man car ries and at the least suspicion lelon that man men Is about busier buster runs away if he were cornered and t run he would fight as bravely as a the bravest but he ie Is a firm believer in the old saying that he who runs away will lle the to fight another day man Is concerned the instant he be beard that wild yell he forgot eiery everything thIng but that he was caught in a bad fix ile we was caught up a tree and that was no place for a bear to be with a man about even though that ii man ian wai was only a boy he ile lost all interest tere t in honey he ile had but one tb thought ought and that was to get away hom there as quickly as ever b be e codd ro climb donn doun take too long so buster simply let go an and d dropped tes yes sir that Is what bastir bear did lie let go and dropped busters bones are not ilk like 8 0 other ther bones they are not brittle and easily broken th branches below broke his fall somewhat and be broke the branches branche L down doven he be came to the ground with a thump that would have knocked the feind lad from anyone but buster bear and the instant be he touched I 1 I 1 I 1 y down he H came to the ground with a thump that would have knocked the wind from anyone but buster bear the ground he rushed through the green forest as it the old nick were at his heels sammy jay and nod drummer the woodpecker saw it all famer B browns boy running for a all 11 he was worth in one direction stumbling as he be ran and slapping at angry bees and buster bear tearing off in the opposite direction bilth ath a little whimper of fright with every jump LIs his face and coat all smeared with honey and dirt and ana leaves sticking all over him it was so funny that they faugl ed until they almost made themselves sick but busy bee and her fellow workers wasted no time chasing either farmer browns boy or bus ter bear they promptly tell fell to work to save what honey was IL left ft and take it to another storehouse which they knew of and this Is how it happened that buster bear got only halt a feast after all a 0 1932 ayt V burgess ahu service |