Paine Albert Bigelow. Mr. Rabbit's Wedding. Hollow Tree Stories
LITTLE JACK RABBIT AND BUNTY BUN
COUSIN REDFIELD AND THE MOLASSES
MR. BEAR'S EARLY SPRING CALL
MR. JACK RABBIT BRINGS A FRIEND
I. A NEW ARRIVAL IN THE BIG DEEP WOODS TELLS A STORY
II. MISS MYRTLE MEADOWS CONTINUES HER ADVENTURES
MR. RABBIT'S WEDDING
I. THE HOLLOW TREE PEOPLE GATHER TO CELEBRATE A GREAT EVENT
II. THE GREAT PERFORMANCE THAT FOLLOWED THE WEDDING-DINNER
MR. MAN
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THE Little Lady has been to the circus during the afternoon and has come home full of it. There were ever so many things to see there, but nicest of all were some little bears – three of them – who rolled over one another in their cage and seemed to be having the best time in the world. She tells the Story Teller all about them after supper; then she says:
"Do you know any story about little bears? Did the Bear family in the Big Deep Woods ever come visiting to the Hollow Tree?"
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"But Uncle Brownwood didn't give Cousin Redfield any more molasses in a saucer; he spread his bread for him every morning, and set the molasses-jug on a high shelf, out of reach, and Reddie used to stand and look at it, when his father was gone, and wander how long it would be before he would be tall enough to get it down and enjoy himself with the contents.
"One day when Cousin Redfield was looking at the jug he had an idea. Just outside of the cave his father had made a bear-ladder for Reddie to learn to climb on. A bear-ladder is a piece of a tree set up straight in the ground. It has short, broken-off limbs, and little bears like to run up and down on it, and big bears, too, for it gives them exercise and keeps them in practice for climbing real trees.
