Don't wake the Seventeen Little Bears;
they are all asleep."
CHAPTER IX
The Seventeen Little Bears took cold when they fell through the ice
into the water, so they had to stay in bed all day. They cried, "Tell
us a story, please tell us a story."
Snubby Nose and Tippy Toes danced this way, and that way, before the
mirror and cried out together,
"Who is so ugly? Nobody knows."
The mirror answered,
"Snubby Nose and Tippy Toes."
The Seventeen Little Bears clapped their little paws and cried, "Tell
it again, tell it again!"
Then Snubby Nose and Tippy Toes danced this way, and that way, before
the mirror and asked,
"Who took cold when they fell through the ice?"
The mirror would not answer this time.
The Seventeen Little Bears wept and wailed. Bunny and Susan came
upstairs to see what was the matter.
Bunny said, "Never mind, I will tell you a story about my reading by
candle-light."
Then the Seventeen Little Bears cried, "Oh, Bunny, tell us a new story,
please."
Now, Bunny could not think of a new story to tell to save his life, so
Susan said, "I will tell you about the Circus cookies that came alive."
Then, the Seventeen Little Bears shouted, "We know that story by heart,
we know every word of it."
They took out their seventeen little red pocket handkerchiefs and cried
and cried.
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