Tippy
Toes came to meet him. He had two pairs of skates and cried,
"Where were you so long, goodness knows,
Here are your skates. Come Snubby Nose."
He kissed Snubby Nose on both cheeks.
The Seventeen Little Bears sat on the bank trying to fasten their
skates. Their little paws got colder and colder every minute. Snubby
Nose helped them fasten their skates and Tippy Toes helped them too.
Then they put on their own skates and went skating away, and away, and
away.
By and by Bunny and Susan said,
"'Tis rather sad now to relate,
We are too old and stiff to skate.'"
Grandpa Grumbles said,
"Chilly business this sport I think,
Let's go roller-skating in a rink."
Bunny and Susan said they must really go home and Grandpa Grumbles said
he, too, would go to his own home.
He shouted to the Seventeen Little Bears,
"Don't skate where the ice is thin,
You'll make a hole and tumble in."
The Seventeen Little Bears skated on and on, the wind whistling in
their ears.
Snubby Nose said to Tippy Toes, "What if the Seventeen Little Bears
should fall into the water, what would we do?"
Tippy Toes said, "The wind blows so hard they cannot hear. I hope they
know where the ice is thin."
The Seventeen Little Bears formed a circle and skated round.
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