The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-16
BURGESS BED-
 TIME STORY
TWO FORLORN YOUNG BEARS

Somehow or other you will pay.
 Mother Bear.
 If ever there were two forlorn young Bears those two were Boxer and woof woof as they tried to get themselves clean. From head to foot the fur of Boxers coat was matted together with maple syrup, and in with it was flour and soot and dirt. Woof woofs coat was no better. Leaves were sticking to them where they had fallen down in their mad race to get away from Farmer Browns sugar house. Every one of those leaves had to be picked off.
 Down by the Laughing brook they picked and washed and did othe best they could to get themselves clean. And while they worked they whim- pered and whined and lost their tenn pers and really had very dreadful time When they had got themselves as clean as they could they still were two sorry looking little Bears. It would take days ana days to get their coats looking even halfway good again.
 When they were througt at the Laughing Brook they shuffled back to their home under the great wind fall. They didn't feel like staying out. The truth Is they were beginning to feel most uncomfortable inside. They wanted to lie down. They were be- ginning to feel very, very miserable. No stomach, not even the stomach of a Bear, can be abused and not protest. The stomachs of Boxer and Woof Woof had been very much abused, !, r In two little Bears pay for 1t.
 Curled up in their bed under the great windfall Boxer and Woof Woof tried to go to sleep. But they couldn't. No, sir. they couldn't. Their stomachs wouldn't let them. First Boxer would squeal right out with the pain in his stomach, then Woof Woof would sud denly kick and cry with the pain In her stomach It didn't seem to them possible that such very small stom- achs could have such very big pains. You see. they quite forgot that those stomachs had been stretched and stretched until they had held several times as much as old Mother Nature had ever intended they should. They had been so greedy had those two llt- tie Bears, when they were in Farmer Browns sugar house that all they had thought of had been to eat all the su- gar and syrup they possibly could. IL would have been bad enough to have stuffed themselves that way with the simplest of food. Too much food of any kind Is always bad. But there is nothing worse for any one than to much sweet food, and Boxer and Wool Woof had eaten enough sugar ana syrup for a dozen Bears.
 Those pains grew worse and worse. Boxer and Woof Woof were two very sick little Bears. Its all your fault whimpered woof Woof.
 No such things You didnto have to go unless yo uwanted to-" snarled Boxer.
 Then those two little Bears quar- reled, and between their quarreling and the pains in their stomachs they were two unhappy and forlorn little Bears, They were paying for their disobedience and for their greediness. And how they did wish that they had never tasted maple sugar and maple syrupi
 "IlI never eat any more as long as I live" whimpered Woof Woof.
 "Just thinking of 1t makes me sick, whined Boxer.
 But by and by their stomachs stopped aching and they fell asleep. When they awoke they felt better. rrhe3 felt far from their usually live ly selves. but there were no pains in their stomachs. Then they began to think over the great feast Of sugar and syrup they had had and, strange to say, they decided that 1t was worth all the fright and all the trouble and all the pains they had had. They had paid for 1t. but 1t was worth the price. 1Copyright, 1922, by T. W. Burgess.) face around it. thus offering a more economical and more effective method of producing variety of tone by uti- lizinR the gamut of grays between black and white. Timothy Cole. ac- tive veteran of those golden days or Americas new schoof' of wood-en- craving, W. c. Watt and few others are yet exercising the witchery of this craft transmitting the painters art into the monochrome of the wood block.
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