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“I didn’t take , and now it’s su trouble Panthers and bears are so fat, this tiood-natured

“Well, I took a short cut through the woods, and I nearly ran into a big bear I came around a clump of underbrush, and there he was, not as far from me as across this room

“He looked around at un Anyway, he didn’t pay any more attention to me

“He was standing at the foot of a big tree, and bees were buzzing all around hih his thick fur, and he kept brushing them away from his head with one paw

“I stood there watching him, and he put the other paw into a hole in the tree and drew it out all dripping with honey He licked the honey off his paw and reached in for more But by that time I had found me a club I wanted that honey myself

“So I ainst a tree and yelling The bear was so fat and so full of honey that he just dropped on all fours and waddled off a fast, away froon”

Laura asked hiot the honey away from the bees

“That was easy,” Pa said “I left the horses back in the woods, where they wouldn’t get stung, and then I chopped the tree down and split it open”

“Didn’t the bees sting you?”

“No,” said Pa “Bees never sting me

“The whole tree was hollow, and filled fro honey there for years Soood clean honey to last us a long time”

Laura was sorry for the poor bees She said: “They worked so hard, and now they won’t have any honey”

But Pa said there was lots of honey left for the bees, and there was another large, hollow tree near by, into which they could move He said it was time they had a clean, new home

They would take the old honey he had left in the old tree, make it into fresh, new honey, and store it in their new house They would save every drop of the spilled honey and put it away, and they would have plenty of honey again, long before winter came

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