| Show I Burgess I BEDTIME rE L STORIES cun CUBBY Y MAKES UP illS 1115 UND MIND lUNDBy By THORNTON W. W V. V BURGESS Who selfishly gives way to greed To others payS but little heed Old Mother Nature Cubby was having ha a good time lie He was having a wonderful time Those certaInly did taste good It was so long since lie he had hart had any that he had forgotten how good they were Like alt all little Bears he was greedy Greedy toe can seldom think of anything but their stomachs when they have food tood So Cubby just didn't pay any attention to anything else but the gobblIng up of as many of those hose t as he could get When he had stripped one branch he would pull down another You see see these were high bush blueberries Presently he found a place where low bush blueberrIes grew He didn't have JO 30 JOstand stand up to ta eat cat these he just walked along gobbling them up like a pig At last Cubby paused to rest It was then he looked around for lor Farmer Browns Brown's Boy and dIdn't see hIm He stood up on his hind feet teet and looked In all dIrections He peered behind the bushes There was no Farmer Drowns Browns Boy He didn't know what to tomake tomake make of It No sir sir he dIdn't know what to make of It Could it be that Farmer Falmer Browns Brown's Boy had left lett him all alone Now perhaps It sounds queer to you ou but that little Bear suddenly became frightened Ho He didn't want vant to ta be left Farmer Browns Brown's Boy Bo wasn't anywhere around and Moth Mother r Bear wasn't anywhere around and he was lonesome and afraid Old Jed Thumper the gray old Rabbit who lives up In the Old Pasture thumped the ground very hard In a tangle bramble just back backof of the little bear Cubby jumped and actually took to his heels It was the first time Ume he had ever heard a rabbit thump and he didn't know what It was Mrs Grouse sUddenly whIrred up from almu under his nose and frightened him so that he fell over backward It was wa-s his first experience with Mrs Grouse He didn't like that place No sir he didn't like that place I 1 want to go home whimpered Cubby I 1 want to go home And the funny part of It Is that when he said that he dIdn't mean his home In the Green Forest he meant Farmer Browns He began to tG hunt with his nose to the ground Cubby Jumped and actually took to t o ohis his h heels ls Presently he caught a whiff of some something thIng that sent ent a little tingle all over him Once It would have been n a little tingle or of fear but now It was a little tingle of joy It was the man man- smell It was the smell ot of Farmer Parmer Browns Brown's Eo Boy Now bears have very wonderful noses They probably learn more with their noses than with their eyes and their ears together Cubby's nose served him quite as well as the nose of Bowser the Hound served him He used It just as Bowser uses his lie He straightaway began to follow that man smelt along the old down through the Old Pasture Some Some- Sometimes Sometimes times he would lose It and then ins ins- Impatiently patiently would hunt about until once snore more I-ce I picked It up All the time Ume hc be was whimperIng and whinIng You see see he was quite upset at having been baen left that way He didn't like it at all He felt that he had been treated badly Meanwhile as you know Farmer I I Browns Brown's Boy had reached home and he and Mother Brown and Farmer I Brown were sure that Cubby was only I a memory And nil all three wondered It if Ithe ho he rita made hIs mother as much trouble as he had made them Copyright 1927 by T. T W. W Burgess Burse s The next Racket In the J |
