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Identifier: redfolkwildfolk00demirich (find matches)
Title: Red folk and wild folk;
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Deming, Therese (Osterheld), 1874-1945 Deming, Edwin Willard, 1860-1942
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Publisher: New York, F.A. Stokes Company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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e, and he saw the little birds fl\ing al:)out.It was late in the autumn, and the dead leaxes werelying all over the ground. As the little fellow trottedthrough them, he thought they were singing to him;so he talked to them in his baby language, and theybecame his friends. He went on and on, as lomj as he heard thesonQf of the leaves and the chatterinij of the littlebirds. Often little rabbits jumped across his path ;they were not afraid of such a little fellow and satupon their haunches to see what new kind of animalhe might be. By and by, the birds went to sleep ; the forestbecame dark ; and the little boy could not see. Thenhe thought of his mama and papa and began to cry. When a little child cries because he is hungry,his voice often sounds like that of a baby bear. A big mama bear was just coming through theleaves, and, when she heard the baby crying, shebegan to hunt f)r what she thought was a lost babybear, and at last she found him. She took him in her arms and curled her furrv
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HOW A MOTHER BEAR SAVED A LITTLE RED BABY. 3 body around him, so that he should be warm, andhe stopped crying and fell sound asleep. When the little fellow awakened in the mornino-.he seemed contented. The mother bear was sure this funny little bearw^as hungry, so she tried to get the baby to followher, but he did not understand. She went to thelittle boys side, raised herself on her hind legs, andwalked away, just as she wanted the baby to do ; butthe boy thought this was sofunny that he only laughed.When the bear saw thatthe baby did not follow her, i^she went back on her fourlegs and started over again, and this she did until the M^^,.,^:-.-,..., iml^v boy understood and trotted <*l(iP^^8Kf ^i*^ after her. As long as the baby followed, the motherbear went right on, but when he stopped she wentback to ofet him aijain. At last they reached the beech-nut grove, and themother bear took her big paw and brushed away theleaves until she found many beech-nuts. The babysaw the mama bear

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