Father Bear And Bobby Bear

CONTENTS


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THE BEARS' CAVE 9

BOBBY GROWS UP 11

BOBBY BEAR HAS TO HELP IN THE HOUSE 15

THEY VISIT THE FARMER'S CORNFIELD 19

OFF FOR THE HONEY 26

THE BEES CHASE BOBBY 40

BOBBY CATCHES A FISH AS BIG AS HIMSELF 47

THE FIGHT WITH THE WOLVES 55




ILLUSTRATIONS


FATHER BEAR AND BOBBY BEAR WERE ON THEIR WAY (_Frontispiece_)
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"BOBBY, BOBBY, GET UP AT ONCE" 14

THEY DRANK CIDER AND PLAYED CHECKERS 23

HIS FOOT CAUGHT IN A ROOT 35

INTO THE WATER HE FELL 51




Bobby Bear




THE BEARS' CAVE


Over where the sun sank to rest every night like a great ball of
fire, there lived three brown bears.

There was Father Bear, with a great, gruff voice. And Mother Bear,
whose voice, while not so loud nor so gruff as father's, yet was not
nice for little boys and girls to hear. And there was little Bobby
Bear. His voice was sweet, for he was very young.

All of the bears had lovely, brown skins. When the sun shone on them
they looked like rich, brown velvet. And when they were curled up,
asleep, they looked like great balls of brown fur.

The bears' eyes were big, and round, and black as coals.

They had great, strong claws on all their paws.

With bears, you know, hands and feet are very much alike, and are
called forefeet and hindfeet--or front feet and back feet. So
instead of finger nails and toe nails they have claws.

But you are anxious to know something about Bobby Bear's home. It
was in a great, gloomy cave. Only the front part had the sunshine.
Away in the back part it was dark, pitch dark, like night.

The bears didn't mind this, of course, for when night came, instead
of reading books like children and grown-ups, they just went right
off to sleep.