BUSTER BEARS TWINS - another adventure in the Green Forest E-Book

Thornton W. Burgess

• Herausgeber: Abela Publishing
• Kategorie: Für Kinder und Jugendliche
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2019

Beschreibung

In BUSTER BEAR’S TWINS Mother Bear has a secret! But she doesn’t have just one secret, she has two! They're her brand new cubs — Boxer and Woof-Woof who are the Green Forest's newest inhabitants. Their arrival has Peter Rabbit, Chatterer the Red Squirrel, Prickly Porky, Hooty the Owl, and other forest creatures all astir over the goings-on in the Bear household.
Young readers, too, can share in their adventures and escapades as they learn how the twins get even with the mischievous Peter Rabbit. Also, find out what happens when the bears first meet their father and discover why Mother Bear has to rescue her cubs and much more.
This book brims with traditional values, gentle humour, and life lessons about nature and wildlife. Here, Thornton Burgess' engaging tale reveals why he's a grandmaster at storytelling. He purposely keeps the text is a simple, easy-to-read style which is complemented with four charming illustrations. This book will captivate today's readers as much as it charmed audiences of generations long passed.
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Leseprobe

Buster Bear’s Twins

BY

Thornton W. Burgess

With Illustrations By

Harrison Cady

Grosset & Dunlap

Originally Published by

Little, Brown, And Company, New York

[1921]

Resurrected By

Abela Publishing, London

[2019]

Buster Bear’s Twins

Typographical arrangement of this edition

© Abela Publishing 2019

This book may not be reproduced in its current format in any manner in any media, or transmitted by any means whatsoever, electronic, electrostatic, magnetic tape, or mechanical ( including photocopy, file or video recording, internet web sites, blogs, wikis, or any other information storage and retrieval system) except as permitted by law without the prior written permission of the publisher.

Abela Publishing,

London

United Kingdom

2019

ISBN-13: 978-8-XXXXXX-XX-X

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My, my, how excited they were as Mother Bear led the way.

Dedication

TO CHILDHOODLittle Human Folk, Little People InFur And Feathers And All OtherChildren Of Old MotherNature This BookIs Dedicated.

Contents

I Mother Bear’s Secret

II Peter Scares the Twins

III Peter’s Glee Is Short-Lived

IV Boxer and Woof-Woof

V Out in the Great World

VI The Twins Climb a Tree

VII A Scare That Didn’t Work

VIII Too Late Chatterer Is Sorry

IX The Twins Have To Go Home

X The Twins Get Even with Peter Rabbit

XI Peter Is in a Tight Place

XII Peter Takes a Chance

XIII A Great Mix-Up of Little Bears

XIV Two Foolish-Feeling Little Bears

XV The Twins Meet Their Father

XVI The Twins Take to a Tree

XVII Mother Comes to the Rescue

XVIII The Twins are Comforted

XIX The Cubs Talk It Over

XX The Twins Get Their First Bath

XXI The Twins Are Still Puzzled

XXII Boxer Gets a Spanking

XXIII Boxer Is Sulky

XXIV Boxer Starts Out To Get Even

XXV Chatterer Has Fun with Boxer

XXVI Alone and Lost in the Great World

XXVII A Dreadful Night for a Little Bear

XXVIII Boxer Gets His Own Breakfast

XXIX Boxer Has a Painful Lesson

XXX Boxer Is Sadder but Much Wiser

XXXI Boxer Meets a Polite Little Fellow

XXXII Boxer Wishes He Hadn’t

XXXIII Woof-Woof Turns Up Her Nose

XXXIV All Is Well at Last

Illustrations

My, my, how excited they were as Mother Bear led the way. - Frontispiece

Boxer climbed up on the pile of brush and jumped up and down.

It was the first time they ever had been in the water all over.

He pitched heels over head down the bank of the Laughing Brook.

Buster Bear’s Twins

CHAPTERI Mother Bear’s Secret

The best kept secret soon or lateWill be found out as sure as fate.Mother Bear.

Have you ever wanted to be in a number of places at the same time? Then you know exactly how Peter Rabbit felt in the beautiful springtime. You see, there was so much going on everywhere all the time that Peter felt sure he was missing something, no matter how much he saw and heard. In that he was quite right.

But you may be sure Peter did his best not to miss any more than he had to. He scampered lipperty-lipperty-lip this way, lipperty-lipperty-lip that way, and lipperty-lipperty-lip the other way, watching, listening, asking questions and making a nuisance of himself generally. For a while there were so many new arrivals in the Old Orchard and on the Green Meadows, feathered friends returning from the Sunny South and in a great hurry to begin housekeeping, and strangers passing through on their way to the Far North, that Peter hardly gave the Green Forest a thought.

But one moonlight night he happened to think of Paddy the Beaver and that he hadn’t seen Paddy since before Paddy’s pond froze over early in the winter.

“I must run over and pay him my respects,” thought Peter.

“I certainly must. I wonder if he is as glad as the rest of us that Sweet Mistress Spring is here.”

No sooner did he think of this than Peter started, lipperty-lipperty-lip, through the Green Forest for the pond of Paddy the Beaver. Now the nearest way was past the great windfall where Mrs. Bear made her home. Peter hadn’t thought of this when he started. He didn’t think of it until he came in sight of it. The instant he saw that old windfall he stopped short. He remembered Mrs. Bear and that he had heard that she had a secret. Instantly curiosity took possession of him. He forgot all about Paddy the Beaver.

For some time Peter sat perfectly still, looking and listening. There was no sign of Mrs. Bear. Was she under that windfall in her bedroom taking a nap, or was she off somewhere? Peter wished he knew. It was such a lovely night that he had a feeling Mrs. Bear was out somewhere. A hop at a time, pausing to look and listen between hops, Peter drew nearer to the great windfall. Still there was no sign of Mrs. Bear.

With his heart going pit-a-pat, pit-a-pat, pit-a-pat, Peter drew nearer and nearer to the great windfall, and at last was close to it on the side opposite to Mrs. Bear’s entrance. Taking care not to so much as rustle a dry leaf on the ground, Peter stole around the end of the great windfall until he could see the entrance Mrs. Bear always used. No one was in sight. Peter drew a long breath and hopped a little nearer. He felt very brave and bold, but you may be sure that at the same time he was ready to jump and run, as only he can at the least hint of danger.

For a long time Peter sat and stared at that entrance and wished he dared just poke his head inside. If Mrs. Bear really had a secret, it was somewhere inside there. Anyway, that is what old Granny Fox had said. He had almost worked his courage up to the point of taking just one hurried little peek in that entrance when his long ears caught a faint rustling sound under the great windfall.

Peter scurried off to a safe distance, then turned and stared at that entrance. He half expected to see Mrs. Bear’s great head come poking out and he was ready to take to his heels. Instead a very small head and then another close beside it appeared.

Peter was so surprised he nearly fell over backward. Then in a flash it came to him that he knew Mrs. Bear’s secret. It was out at last. Yes, sir, it was out at last. Mrs. Bear had a family! Mrs. Bear and Buster Bear had twins!

CHAPTERII Peter Scares the Twins

For timid folk no joy is quiteLike giving other folks a fright.Mother Bear.

It isn’t often that Peter Rabbit has a chance to scare anyone. You know he is such a timid fellow himself that he is the one who usually gets the fright. So when he does happen to scare someone it always amuses him. Somehow he always has more respect for himself.

When on that moonlight night he discovered Mrs. Bear’s secret, he had the most mixed feelings he ever had known. First came surprise, as he saw those two little heads poked out of Mrs. Bear’s entrance. He was sitting up very straight and the surprise was so great that he all but tumbled over backwards. You see, there was no mistaking those two little heads for any but those of baby Bears! He knew that those were two Bear cubs, Mrs. Bear’s babies, the secret she had kept hidden so long under the great windfall.

And his surprise at seeing those two little heads was only a little greater than his surprise at the smallness of them. So for perhaps two minutes Peter sat motionless, quite overcome with surprise, as he stared at those two funny little heads poked out from the entrance under the great windfall. Then all in a flash he understood the cause of Mrs. Bear’s short temper and the reason she drove everybody away from there, and he felt a sudden panic of fright.

“This is no place for me,” thought Peter, “and the sooner I get away from here the better.” He looked hastily all about. There was no sign of Mrs. Bear. Right then and there curiosity returned in full force.

“I wish those youngsters would come out where I can look at them and just see how big they are,” thought Peter. “It seems safe enough here now, and perhaps if I wait a few minutes they will come out.”

So Peter waited. Sure enough, in a few minutes the two little cubs did come out. Plainly it was their first glimpse of the Green Forest, and Peter almost laughed right out at the look of wonder on their faces as they stared all about in the moonlight. But not even his first surprise was greater than Peter’s surprise now as he saw how small they were.

“Why,” he exclaimed to himself, “why-ee, they are no bigger than I! I didn’t suppose any one so big as great big Mrs. Bear could have such small children. I wonder how old they are. I wonder how big they were when they were born. I wonder if they will grow fast. I wonder if they will go about with Mrs. Bear. I suppose Buster Bear is their father, and I wonder if he ever comes to see them. They look to me rather wobbly on their legs. I wonder if Mrs. Bear told them they could come out.”

And then the imp of mischief whispered to Peter. “I wonder if I can scare them,” thought Peter. “It would be great fun to scare a Bear, even if it is nothing but a cub, and to scare two at once would be greater fun.”