"Just think!" Susan said, "he has promised to come in every night and
tell us a story!"
CHAPTER III
When old Grizzly came next evening he had a book tucked under his arm.
"What have you there?" asked Bunny and Susan together.
It was some time before old Grizzly would tell. Then he coughed and
said he had one story that every one liked so well that he had written
it down, and drawn pictures for it.
The two rabbits begged so hard to see the pictures that old Grizzly
opened the book and showed them all the pictures before he began to
read. And this is the story he read:
Once there was a gentleman who wrote stories. He had a fine large cat
called Whiskers.
One day Whiskers thought he would see the man write his story, so he
sat up on the desk beside him.
The man started to write a story about an elephant. It was to be a long
story with big words in it.
Whiskers wanted to be petted just then, and as the man did not notice
him, he gave the pen a little slap, and it made a funny mark down the
page.
"Never mind," said the man, "that will do for the path along which the
elephant walked."
The man's pen was a lovely thing to play with, but Whiskers had a nicer
plaything himself. He began to go round and round after his own tail.
Round and round he went, until he upset the ink.
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