| Show BEDTIME STORY FOR CHILDREN by THORNTON W BURGESS BUSTER BEAR IS PIGGISH N NOW OW you suppose that w when hen there Is plenty for everybody everybody ever everi body would be contented and happy but often altogether too often it so at all the more folks the more they want and there are other folks who ho no matter how much they have hare seem to think that others may be having something better and instead of making the most of what they have hae go about trying to get what their neighbors have it seemed it really did that there a ra these nuts are mine all mine he H roared were enough of those queer three sided little brown broan nuts under the beech trees tor for everybody to have all lie he could eat cat and that that beerli nut picnic that beautiful october morning should be the merriest happiest kind of a fil picnic crile but it no sir it the reason was the of buster bear when hen custer buster arrived under the beech trees and saw so many others gathered there for the very same purpose that had brought him there he right away let selfishness get the best of him lie ile was vias greedy was buster bear lie he was so greedy that he bear to see gee anyone else get a single one of those little brown sweet nuts although he knew well enough that he be eat all of them to save his life right night away lie he began to growl and you know his growl Is deep and brumbly grumbly and not at all pleasant to hear those who were nearest him moved off a little further farther but went right 0 on a picking up those brown sweet little nuts buster bear growled more and his growl was deeper and more grum bly all the other little people looked at him anxiously but kept right on hunting for those brown sweet little nuts then buster blister bear quite lost his temper these nuts are mine all wine mine he roared then he be ran at lightfoot the deer lightfoot bounded away but not far he knew that buster bear could not catch him and he had no mind to leave those nuts then buster rushed at the gobbler cobbler family and all the gobblers scurried away each in a different direction but they go far then buster rushed this way and rushed that way viny wherever lie he saw anyone picking up nuts mrs grouse merely darted behind a fallen tree and the minute blisters back was turned she was scratching oner oe leaves in search of nuts again sammy jay and redhead the lie woodpecker merely flew up tip in a tree chatterer anat the red ked squirrel and floppy jack the gray squirrel and une unc billy and mrs possum climbed the nearest trees but they were back on the ground again as soon as buster had turned away peter rabbit who was hiding near to see all that went on hail had to laugh tie ile help belp it IL there was treat great big buster bear so piggish that he wanted all et netting getting hardly a taste because he vas nag spending ills his time chasing ills his neighbors it of often t en I 1 la 9 that way with piggish people in trying to get more than their share hey fall to get what they might have as well as not CT T W bergem MIM service |
