Show OUR BEDTIME STORY by THORNTON BURGESS W W HILE buster bear and king vv eagle the were quarreling over big fat fish which king eagle had made plunger fish hawk drop plunger and mrs plunger Plu iger had flown down back to the big river to try for another plunger Is not one to waste any time crying over spilled milk which means you know fretting about things which have happened and cannot be helped he hat had lost the finest fattest fish he had caught for many a adny but crying about it bring it back the only thing to do was to try to catch another so plunger and mrs plunger know knew nothing about the quarrel between king engle eagle and buster bear nor how neither got the flab after nil all hut but granny fox who rau ran hum m ml said busy see bee and was gone away with it while the others are quarreling over whose it was they both believe in making the best of a bad matter and in this case the best was just trying to forget and going fishing once more when buster bear and king kagle eagle grew grev tired of quarreling over nothing king eagle spread his great wings whigs and sailed away and buster bear turned back into the green forest quite naturally he in the best of tempers he had wanted fish and it was very clear that he have fish that day so as he shuffled along ho he mum bled and grumbled and grumbled and mumbled and was quite out of sorts as anyone could see one reason was that his stomach was empty tie he had had no breakfast ant and buster bear Is not one of those people who believe in going without breakfast he might the trouble with a wife who reads her husband like a book says saya observing olivia la Is nine times out of ton ten the does it 0 1932 dell bell have had a breakfast had lie he been willing to eat what lie he could get but you remember he hail had set his heart or rather his stomach on fish and had bad turned up his nose at the thought of anything else so his stomach was waa empty and he was cross bidjou ever notice how crossness almost always goes with nn an empty stomach presently as he shuffled along mumbling and grumbling he be came to some plants the roots of which are very good eating that is they are very good to buster lie ile dug up a lot tor for the ground was soft and his great paws pawa with their big claws make very good digging forks As he dug he ate and when at last he stopped digging it was because his stomach was as full of those roots as it wanted to be ue he had had enough there was still room foursome for some dessert but ot of the roots he had had all he wanted dear me dear me what an important thing a stomach it was buster bears stomach that got him into the quarrel with king eagle it was his stomach that put him in such a rumbling grumbling temper and now it was this same stomach that restored his usual good nature lie ile no long longer er grumbled and rumbled ile he even laughed as he sat there all alone in the green forest and thought of how first plunger the fish hawk then king eagle and lastly he himself had been sure of that big fat fish which plunger had caught in the big river and how after all it had been granny fox who hat had eaten it throe three of us quarreled for that fish and some one else who have known anything about it but for that quarrel got it it certainly la Is a funny old world muttered buster busier 1 I guess that quarreling pay not tho the ones who do any way elal fla I 1 what Is thail buster cocked his head on one side and listened nis ills little eyes began to twin twinkle icle that sounds to me very much like the hum of busy bee said lie he tie lie looked eagerly in all directions just back of him he discovered some flowers and there sure enough w was as busy bee billial Il lial said buster bear again num ilum m nal m 1 said busy bee and was gone honey I 1 exclaimed buster bear what I 1 need fish would have been good but honey will be better the hum of little busy bee Is sweetest of all sounds to me it thrills my heart and stomach too As nothing else can ever do 1 I wonder where busy bee Is storing that honey it Is just jast what I 1 want to top off with buster smacked his lips and then smacked them again and little by little his mouth began to water for buster blister benr has a very sweet tooth such a sweet tooth that he will risk a great deal for the sake of filling his stomach with sweets Q 1932 byaw burgess |