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Show ZAARY GIiwA BONNER. . COrriOni 1IN Miwittjl UKiOH - . BEARS' ADVENTURES One day Billy and Brownie Bear went off on a hunting and seeking trip. They had a great deal of luck and came back to their cave with all sorts of good things to eat. But the things they had found that they liked best, and wdiich they had found only a short distance away, were what they had found in an old farmyard the other side of the edge of the woods. They had found a garbage pail ! This they had dragged off for a distance, and they had found tins which had once held jam and old Jars to be licked out, and many other dell cacies which bears do not often get. They scattered the old tins aftei they had left them quite, quite clean, and they didn't bother to pick any thing up. Then they heard the farmer. "I do believe that those bears who live off in the caves in the woods have been here. "They know' just how to get at tins with their claws and they love jam and sweet things." Then he heard a rustle through the woods. "I believe they are there now. "I'll get a shot at them if I can." So he went for his gun. After all, the bears had only taken his garbage tins and garbage wasn't Many Other Delicacies. such a tremendous thing to steal, but the farmer was feeling angry and i.toss. Off went his gun, but Billy and Brownie rushed back to their cave for all they were worth. "How selfish of him," they growled, "when we were cleaning up his place for him." But before they reached the cave they had picked up some more goodies. "We have narrow escapes, don't we?" they said to each other as they went into their cave. But now they had eaten all they wanted and they went way into their cave for another long nap until the spring was really around, really around ! They went fast, fast asleep and their dreams were of jam and garbage gar-bage pails but not of men or guns, so you may know they bad very happy, hap-py, pleasant dreams. The farmer took care to keep his garbage pail from the bears during the next few weeks. But it was quite useless for him to have bothered, for the bears wojren't going near him for awhile. They were too pleased with their lovely dreams, and they were no longer hungry. They would be hungry a little later on in the spring. |