Show Burgess I BEDTIME IE STORIES HY BY TOS W. W BURGI BURGESS SS CUBBY C DISCOVERS ns IllS HIS MIS MIS- TARs T Mistakes M experience lens has taught bus Are Arc A re usually from lack hick of thought Mother lother West Wet Wind Now that th the Green Forest was wu white w hite with snow sno Cubby the little littlebear bear bellI b ear who had wandered away felt more lonely than titan ever You see this thie wasn't w his world at all nil Noticing Nothing looked l familiar nothing looked right ight r lie He couldn't tnt t find an anything thing to cat at c The acorns and the beechnuts were vero e covered with Ith snow Then too Cubby Culby felt within him a curious f feeling feeling- It was as a feeling that he wanted c to sleep deep and sleep leep and sleep But Dut before ho Ice could do this h he hemut must mut find rind the right eight kind of a place to t o sleep So Cubby wanted Mother th Hear h ear If he could only find Mother lother Bear Dear she sho would show him what to todo do d 0 o. o Then alt all his troubles would be beat beat at in nn end So whimpering and whining to himself h Cubby wandered about ht through t tho the Green Forest I saw w tho he t footprints of Roddy Heddy Fox and ani Old Man Ian Coyote CooLe Once he came across the footprints of the tise Bobcat and the mere sight of them hem made his hi hi hair hall stand Mind on ore end for tor a moment or two But Dut look ns as ho would he Ice could find Lind no footprints of Mother Iother Dear Bear Cubby was seas growing tired He lIe hal wandered wondered anti and wandered until now his legs begin began be an to ache The worst of ot it was wa he knew of no place to curl UI up for tor a rest He was far tar away assay from tho the hollow tree where ho he had hid spent the tho Oh dear whimpered Cubby Cubb Oh Cubby Oh Cubby finish tin Ish that He lie had just come around a big rock and there In front of him wa Willi waa Willin was wasa a n line of footprints great big footprints foot toot prints They were tho the footprints of ofa ofa ofa a boar bear and a lie big III bear bellI at that Cub- Cub Cubby bj by b was so excited ex an antI l delighted that he ho didn't t stop to even sniff at those thosa footprints They are aie Mother Bears Dears he chuckled anc and away he went galloping along along- fol tol- following fol- fol following lowing those footprints footprint Cubby had hasl qu quite te e forgotten that tha he was tired Here was a line of ot footprints easy e to follow toll ow All he had hatS to do was wis to Keep his eyes on onlie I J It- It I J I f L. L q It lie Ito saw w the lIce footprints of noddy n Fo Foi Fot nod mid ane Old Man fan Coyote them and run ruts And this lIds is exactly P whit t h Cubby did do He ste galloped along alon In that clumsy wa eva that thit little bears have ha e. e but It too tov tove c him hinc fast tast Not once did he ho think to tc smell of those footprints Not onet I did he think to look for fol the tho footprints foot foot- foot'S of of Isis his twin sister Had lied he Ise S thought of ot those thos tiso footprints and ind the lbs I fact tact that he saw none of oC them Item he S might not have hare beets been so 80 sure that thai he was wis following In the footprints footprint of ot Mother Bear Dear Still ho he might have hare thought ht that his twin sister had been left at home homo while Mother othel Bear Dear was out ind n l about However HO eer Cubby wain t troubled by an an thoughts thought's at all In lu regard to this So heedlessly and thoughtlessly si sl Cubby Cub y galloped I along and present present- presently 1 ly running around i II great wind wInd- windfall wIndfall fall he almost ran headlong he Into a 0 great grent big bear Just In Its time lime Cub Cul Cubby Cubby by topped stopped The Tho great big bear beai whirled al ale alc r with a arl an and CubbY Cubb discovered ered his ml tale e It Mother Dear Bear at all it was 1 big Ig fluster Duster Heir Dear It was wis hl his father tather But flut cubby didn't t know this anti and Duster Buster Boar Bear didn't recognize recognise his own small son Po Fo Fo- Fo i minute they the stood staring nt at each other Copyright 1927 by T T. W W. Due Bur Duress sess gess ess The next story stor Cubby Squalls |