Show Burgess I BEDTIME IE L STORIES BURGESS BURGISS BEDTIME IE STORIES STOnIESt Bj- Bj Thornton W. W Burgess CUBBY CUDDY SQUALLS For All mistakes we have h to pay pitY Alas There Is no other way Cubby Cubb Cubby has found this out for himself Of course his mother molher could have told him that this was wu true Almost any anyone one with expert expert- experience experience ence once could have ha told him But al almost al- al almost almost most every ery one has to to find It t out for fer himself It was wag just so ao with Cubby Cubb He Ife had made the mistake of not looking closely enough at the big footprints toot prInts In the snow that he ho had been following Had ha hit looked at nt them as n lie Imo should have o looked at them he would have known at nl once that they the were w r not made by Mother Bear Dear But just because they were ere big footprints Cubby tools It for granted ranted that they they were ere ereM Mother M ther Bears Durs So galloping along alon carelessly careless he lie ran around a great windfall and almost almot headlong Into a great reat big bear benr who vho was not nut his mother at all In fact ta t the big bear was his father Buster Duster Bear Dear But Dut Cubby didn't dl recognize his hl father and Buster Duster didn't recognize re Cubby For perhaps one minute they stood stating staring at each other Then with a deep grumbly growl great gr big I Buster n Bear n um jumped tow to- 0 Jf r 1 F f f f f L f I 1 f i f I r Stop Mop that th noise or Ill I'll come up there mid and nd cat tat you jou up- up up growled led Buster ward Cubby Cubb Cubby ga 1 gave 1 e a fright fright- frightened frightened ened yelp elp and started up the nearest near near- nearest est cst tree My sly goodness how he did didgo didgo go so up that tree trec Chatterer the net lied Squirrel ne never er went up a tree tre any faster than did Cubby And he kept l right on going just all as far as lie hc could go o. o And when ho found ho he could get no farther ho began Legan to bawl Yes Mr sir 11 lie he did so Ho lie began to bawl You lou see he was a tery ery scared little Hide bear so being so badly scared ho he just had to bawl ban I. I Buster Duster Bear Dear camo canto over o to the foot of ot time the tree and ani looked up All the time he WM as growling that deep grumbly growl of or his Then ho he sat up on his haunches und and looked 1 at Cubby Cubb Then ho stood up on his and very ery t tall Ul ho he was as ho reached up ulm and dug the tho claws daws of or his forefeet into tho the bark of that tree Yes sir you would have o thought just that It was all because Cubby was so bad bad- badly badly badly ly frightened The moment his father dug his claws claw's Into that big tre lrea Cubby was sure that ho Ito was just as good as caught Little bears are aro like some som little ready boys ready to cry before they are hurt My Alp M think of ot all time the tears that would be bo saved If It people just waited to tobe tobe tobe be hurt crying Halt Half the tho tears lo Ip I tho the world arc are shed In an nn- Slop Stop that thit noise or Ill I'll come up UJ there and eat you ou up growled led Buster At Al that Cubby bawled louder than ewer e e er I dont don't want to be eaten enten up ho lie walled wailed You go away and leave me m alone I want my Oh Oh I 1 want my mother Buster Duster Bear didn't like that noise It made Buster Duster uneasy lIe He glanced gl this way and he glanced that way and again he tie looked up it at Cubby Cub b H It was almost time for Cutter Buster to go to bed for tOl tho the winter I In fact ho he had been thinking that after one more mure good meal he would I go to bed This young bear bawl bawl- bawling log ing up at the top of that tree would make a good I meal In fact tact ho would make a 8 splendid meal He lie would make just the tho Kind of ot ofa ofa a a. meal to go Iu to bed b ti on on Buster looked all about once more moro in a 0 hesitating manner and then abrupt abrupt- abruptly ly dug his claws Into the tree He lie would go up and get that noisy little bear beam eal Cop Copyright Coln right 1927 by T. T T T 11 Bur Dur- Burgess Burgess DurGess gess The next story Buster Bear Has lIu a n Sudden Change of ot Mind 6 |