New Britain herald., 1927-08-16

Mrs. Bear has her hands full when she has pair of cubs to look cut for. Yes, sir, she does so She is worried person, is Mrs. Bear
 most Of the time. You see, in all the Great World there is no mere mischievous youngster than a baby Bear. Little cubs are just brimming over with mischief, curiosity and fun. They can no more keep still for any length of time than can a popular leaf In breeze. So Mother Bear never knows what to expect.
 These two little cubs which she was taking daily into the berry patch In the Old Pasture were as lively youngsters as she had ever had. What one didn't think of, the other did. It seemed to her that they simply jumped from one scrape Into another. That meant that they were spanked pretty often. Mother Bear believes that a good spanking for disobedient little cub is the best way of teaching it to mind. But those little cubs were like other children in that they had short memories. They were no sooner cut of one trouble than they were hunt ing around for another one to get Into.
 Now. accidents happen to little wild folk babies, just as they do to little human folk. Yes, sir, they do SO! It happened one day that one of these cubs began digging up in the Old Pasture. He had found bum blebee's nest and he was after the little bit of honey that would be in that nest. You know there is noth- Ing in the world that ticlsles a bears stomach like honey and he will go almost anywhere and do almost anything to get it.
 So this little cubs nose having told him that there were sweets hidden there, he straightway began digging. His sister wasn't with him at the time. She was busy picking berries a little way off. His mother was doing the same thing. The lit tie cub was chuckling to himself over the treat he was going to have. when suddenly something eripped him by one paw. It hurt hut it frightened him more than it hurt him. He tried 10 pull away, but couldn't. The more he pulled the more it hurt. Now what had hap pened was this; that little black paw had slipped in between two roots. He had pushed his paw in in such 8 way that the roots had sprung apart, and then after his paw had gone through, had snapped together and held him just as a steel trap would have held him
 Of course right away he began 10 fawl. At once Mother Bear came crashing through tna brush her little eyes red with anger. You see. she fully expected 10 find some one hurting that little cub. But when she got there there was only the little cub with paw in a hole and big tears rolling down his cheeks. Mother Bear Was puzzled. ! She didn't know what to make of it. She knew about traps and at first she thought her darling had , caught in one of those drcad- ! ful things called steel trap-ono cf those dreadful thinkg that only man ever sets. She began to make | the dirt fly as she dug beside that i little paw to find the trap.
 By this time that little paw had !. begun to swell, which made it all | the tighter. Yes, sir. it did so. 1 Mother Bear took hold of the lit i tie Bear and pulled, but he cried so 1 pItifully that she stopped. She dug | all around, trying 10 find that trap, . but Of course there wasn't any trap. 1 II was just those two roots, and | somehow Mother Bear didn't know |