Show a J do 1116 1 edal diw ess po THE QUEER CASE OF BUSTER BEAR lie he has some queer ANYWAY ways that Is what peter rabbit thinks and peter ought to know but as to that it Is quite probable that custer buster thinks some of peters ways queer it Is the way of the world to think other folks queer and buster thinks some of peters ways queer and I 1 am quite sure that both think your ways andrine and mine very queer indeed to peters way of thinking one of buster bears queerest habits Is that of sleeping away most of the V 4 huhl fuhl grumbled prickly porky you dont dant know much about buster bear winter since his talk with prickly porky the porcupine peter has begun to understand why johnny chuck and some of the others went to sleep as soon as cold weather came to stay asleep until mistress spring should arrive they bad to sleep or starve tor for there was none of the food they need and be so long as winter lasted but somehow peter seem to make the reason fit the case to buster bear buster seem to to want to go to sleep for the winter he had pro prowled viled around until after the snow had come to stay and then and not until then he be had bad stretched out on his bed of leaves under the shelving rock deep in the green forest where he had bad slept away the last winter and peter knew that they would see no more of him until spring now why should he go to sleep for weeks at a time that way peter puzzled and puzzled over it as he turned it over in his mind johnny chuck lived on tender green things and la in winter time there are no tender green things old mr toad lives on worms and bugs at least there are none where old mr toad can get them but with buster bear it was different why he keep awake all winter just as reddy fox and old man coyote do tt it seemed to peter very absurd that such a great big tellow fellow as buster bear of whom everybody else was afraid a and nd who had bad such a great warm fur coat should hide away and sleep just because it was winter finally he be went back to prickly porky to try to satisfy his curiosity buster bear Is smart said peter ue lie Is one of the smartest of all the people in the green for est esl everybody says that thal and if he be Is so smart why cant he catch enough to eat in the winter just as reddy fox and old man coyote do lol they dont waste their time sleeping and they dont starve to death deah they may go hungry some of the time most of us do that in bad weather but they catch enough to live on why buster bear huh I 1 grunted prickly porky you dont know much about buster bear what do you think he lives on anyway why on any of us little people be can catch replied peter promptly everybody knows thail then everybody knows something that everybody know at all that Is the Jt trouble rouble with a lot of people they think they know when they dont know now take lake the queer case of buster bear every one seems to think that because he eats a mouse or a rabbit or some other of the little forest people silly enough not to keep out of his reach that lie he lives on them altogether just abold as old man coyote does that shows how attle some folks know about their neighbors if old man coyote should catch you peter which I 1 hope he wont you yon would make him a good meal but you be much more than a mouthful for buster bear two or three fat mice would do reddy fox for a whole day but they more than tickle buster boster bears stomach I 1 buster eats meat when it hap pens to fall in his way but wh what at he lives on mostly are roots and herries berries and nuts and bugs and fish and frogs and he has to have a lot of them where pray tell would he find them at this time of the year ile he Is just like johnny chuck and bobby coon and the other sleepers hed bed starve if he sleep thank you prickly porky said peter ieter politely ive learned a lot yet even now I 1 cannot help feeling that it Is very queer such a big strong follow like buster bear should sleep all winter anyway t I 1 hope he has pleasant dreams 19 M el by J G lloyd service |