| Show Burgess Bedtime Bed Stories I By Sly y Thornton W W. Burgess neSTER BEAUS BEAU'S DISAPPOINT DISAPPOINT- MENT Ir T B S. S not too tOI sure auro ot of anything Lest it may my disappointment bring bringOld Old Old Mother Nature Great Big fluster Duster Bear Dear sleeps a all 1111 winter as you know Perhaps it it scents n a hit bit queer that a such c a great big animal should go to sleep l r for forthe forthe I the ho the Mouse M winter Is ls when oat and aM h little t about J ou all win win- 7 I Itel ter tel But If Jt you ou stop to think a n moment you OU will wilt readily see that can find food any any time I of ot year EVen Eien in the tho middle of oC winter when the Green Forest i III be wrapped In snow mo and Ice there are seeds leeds to be found and then too there is i food stored up Ul by wise lit lit- littie Uc tie Yh But u with t fluster Buster Bear It Is very e lu US i very e different He lie cannot I o store r up food rood to use ulle through the winter and when han the snow and Ice lee wrap the Gren Forest l orest I is ill no for food fo such curie a big fellow Cello So It Is that Buster Bear Bur and all his ills family sleep I away the cold cd c d Now o Butter Buster Du ter is Js seldom In a hurry hurr to RO go 0 to sleep KB ICe thinks thinks' a I. great deal of ot his stomach does docs Buster Blister Bear Baal As Ion long as there is I anything any thin to cat fluster Buster postpones that winter win win- ter tl nap iap of oC his h It Jt is only when Jack Frost brings s the snow SIW SI W and ice lee that Buster reluctantly goes to bed bell It was the night ng t of oC tho very ary day lIn that MIs Mrs Bear and Cubby and his lila twin sister had gone goute to bed for forthe forthe forthe the winter that Duster Buster made mad up his hlll mind that It was time for fr him to firo go goto o oto to bed It t was late lato in the night well on toward t w rd morning morn in that he made up his mind He lie had ha J been beon roaming about uneasily nil all night nightlong nightlong nightlong long trying to find something to pat eat and had had very little suc suc- eta cess Its Hs no use IIse grumbled Buster It 1 Jot Fe time for mo me to turn In and ami the sooner I do 10 It the tho sooner lit Ill forget my In stomach lomach I know just where Im I'm going to spend the tho win win- ter tee Ive I've had my eye eA on that for to fo some time lime In fact way back last last- summer I that that place would make malte the best hes kind of oC ofa oCa ofa a winter home So I think Ill I'll l l go over o there now get together to Rome leaves leAns for foi COa a bed be J and turn In III I Ifor for the tho winter Buster shuffled t along alon through the Green Forest Foet Fe rel Deeper and an deep deep- deeper deeler er Into the Green Forest he shut shut- fled led Finally he lie came cam to where a alot alot lot of ot trees had l hen leen e n blown over Some of ot these trees had been beets brok brok- broken en off oce some had ha 1 been beets torn toni up by bythe bythe bythe the roots Straight over to one of oC the tho latter shuffled Buster Duster Where here the tile roots had 11 1 1 been torn toni out a I Great threat hole had been left tend this had beep been partly la covered over by other oth l' l fallen rallen trees treE's Buster was so 11 Intent on getting to his winter bedroom that he didn't pay pa any attention to anything any thin else So it was with some some- something something something thing of oC a shock that he sniffed the scent brought him by br n R. wandering little Night Breeze and smiled smiled- sm Dear Bear Duster Busier stopped slopped short He Ito stretch stretch- stretched ed out hii hi nose nn l once more moro sniffed There was the bear scent cent and it wasn't ono one bear that he smelled but three Worst of ot all that scent came from the bedroom he ne had regarded as a his own Bus Dus- Buster Duster Buster ter back his lips and snarled under tinder his breath For Fot tho the first i 1 l ett t- t cr il d r-pcr r Into litto he bite I Green Forest Fo t tic lie shuffled time hp hI used those tho o little eyes eye of ot his and d he hc discovered u hr r t F of or footprints footprint one e ne set of ot big bl s oni-s and anI nd two sets seti of oC small foot foot- footprints footprints prints led straight In to that hole the big root Very cautiously Duster Buster Eu ter ap liP- lI At t the entrance he paus paus- paused ed Suddenly Su a 0 low warning warning- growl came to him Buster decided right then and there that that wasn't such a 1 good place to 10 o spend pend the winter ns n nhe n he hal hail I it would be Suddenly a he be turned without a 0 sound hur lr He lie would use his old bedroom for another winter Copyright COP iS' iS t 1927 I. I T. T W W. Burgess The next The next story The The Last Good Good Good- night |
