New Britain herald., 1927-12-02

Be not too sure of anything
 Lest it may disappointment bring.
 Old Mother Nature.
 Great Big Buster Bear sleeps all winter, as you know. Perhaps 1t seems d bit queer that such q great big animal should go to sleep for the winter when little Whitefoot the Woodmouse is out and about all winter. But if you stop to think q moment you will readily see that Whitefoot can find food any time of year. Even in the middle or winter, when the Greeu Forest is wrapped in snow and ice, there are seeds to be found, and then, loo, Whitefoot.
 But with Buster bear Ii Is very, very different. He cannot store up food to use through the winter, and when the snow and ice wrap the Green Forest there is no food for such a big fellow. So it is that Buster Bear and all his family sleep away the cold months.
 Now Buster is seldom in Q hurry 10 go to sleep. He thinks a great deal Of his stomach, does Buster Bear. AS long as there is anything 10 eat Buster postpones that winter nap of his. Ii is only when Jack Frost brings the snow and ice that Buster reluctantly goes 10 bed.
 t was the night of the very day that Mrs. Bear and Cubby and his twin sister had gone 10 bed for the winter that Buster made up his mind that it vas time for him 10 go to bed. It was late in the night. well on toward morning that he made up his mind. He had been roaming uneasly all night long. trying to find something to eat, and had had very little success.
 Its no usc,' grumhIed Buster, 'Tt is time for me to turn in and the sooner l do it the sooner I'll for get my stomach. l know just where I'm going 10 spend the winter. I've had my eye on that place for some time. In fact, way back last sum mer I decided that that place would make the best kind Of q winter homo, So I think TT go over there now. get together some leaves for q bed and turn in for the winter"
 Buster shunflcd along through the Green Forest. Deeper and deeper into the Green Forest he shufled. Finally inc came to where a lot of trees had been blown over. Somn o' these trees had been broken off: some had been torn up by the roots. Straight otrr To ou, Of The latter sluNlod Bu~'.r Where the roots had been torn out great hole had been left and tms had been partly covered over by other fallen trees. Buster Vas so iu'rnt on getting to his winter bedroom that he didn't pay attention 10 anything else, So i' was with something of shock that h. snirl,d in" scrnt brought Iim jw a wandering little Night Breeze and stnullel- Bear.
 Buster stopped short. iTe stretch ed out his nose and once more sniff fed There was tho bear scent and it wasn't one bear that h" smclled but three. Worst Of all that scent came straight from 'ho lndroom h. bod regarded as his oUn. Buster drew back his lips and snaried nn- der his breath For the first time he used those little eyes of his and he discovered three s"'s of footprint one sci of big ones and TWO sets oi small ones. Those footprints led straight 10 that hol" under the hI2 root
 Very cau.iouslp Buster arproarh- ed. Al the entrance he paused Suddenly q low warning growl cam' 10 him. Buster decided right then .rd there that that wasn't such T good place 10 spend the winter as ne