The Adventures of Buster Bear

Adventures of Buster Bear, by Thornton W. Burgess

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Title: The Adventures of Buster Bear
Author: Thornton W. Burgess
Illustrator: Harrison Cady
Release Date: September 30, 2007 [EBook #22816]
Language: English
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BURGESS TRADE QUADDIES MARK The Bedtime Story-Books
THE ADVENTURES OF BUSTER BEAR
BY
THORNTON W. BURGESS
Author of "The Adventures of Reddy Fox," "Old Mother West Wind," "Mother West Wind 'Why' Stories," etc.
With Illustrations by HARRISON CADY

BOSTON LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY 1920
Copyright, 1916, BY LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY.
All rights reserved

[Illustration: Buster blinked his greedy little eyes and looked again. Frontispiece.]

CONTENTS
CHAPTER PAGE
I. BUSTER BEAR GOES FISHING 1
II. LITTLE JOE OTTER GETS EVEN WITH BUSTER BEAR 7
III. BUSTER BEAR IS GREATLY PUZZLED 12
IV. LITTLE JOE OTTER SUPPLIES BUSTER BEAR WITH A BREAKFAST 17
V. GRANDFATHER FROG'S COMMON-SENSE 22
VI. LITTLE JOE OTTER TAKES GRANDFATHER FROG'S ADVICE 27
VII. FARMER BROWN'S BOY HAS NO LUCK AT ALL 33
VIII. FARMER BROWN'S BOY FEELS HIS HAIR RISE 38
IX. LITTLE JOE OTTER HAS GREAT NEWS TO TELL 43
X. BUSTER BEAR BECOMES A HERO 48
XI. BLACKY THE CROW TELLS HIS PLAN 53
XII. FARMER BROWN'S BOY AND BUSTER BEAR GROW CURIOUS 58
XIII. FARMER BROWN'S BOY AND BUSTER BEAR MEET 63
XIV. A SURPRISING THING HAPPENS 68
XV. BUSTER BEAR IS A FALLEN HERO 73
XVI. CHATTERER THE RED SQUIRREL JUMPS FOR HIS LIFE 78
XVII. BUSTER BEAR GOES BERRYING 83
XVIII. SOMEBODY ELSE GOES BERRYING 88
XIX. BUSTER BEAR HAS A FINE TIME 93
XX. BUSTER BEAR CARRIES OFF THE PAIL OF FARMER BROWN'S BOY 99
XXI. SAMMY JAY MAKES THINGS WORSE FOR BUSTER BEAR 104
XXII. BUSTER BEAR HAS A FIT OF TEMPER 110
XXIII. FARMER BROWN'S BOY LUNCHES ON BERRIES 115

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
BUSTER BLINKED HIS GREEDY LITTLE EYES RAPIDLY AND LOOKED AGAIN Frontispiece
"HERE'S YOUR TROUT, MR. OTTER," SAID HE PAGE 5
"YOU TAKE MY ADVICE, LITTLE JOE OTTER," CONTINUED GRANDFATHER FROG 26
REDDY GLARED ACROSS THE SMILING POOL AT PETER 45
BUSTER BEAR WAS RUNNING AWAY TOO 71
THOSE WHO COULD FLY, FLEW. THOSE WHO COULD CLIMB, CLIMBED 112

THE ADVENTURES OF BUSTER BEAR
I
BUSTER BEAR GOES FISHING
Buster Bear yawned as he lay on his comfortable bed of leaves and watched the first early morning sunbeams creeping through the Green Forest to chase out the Black Shadows. Once more he yawned, and slowly got to his feet and shook himself. Then he walked over to a big pine-tree, stood up on his hind legs, reached as high up on the trunk of the tree as he could, and scratched the bark with his great claws. After that he yawned until it seemed as if his jaws would crack, and then sat down to think what he wanted for breakfast.
While he sat there, trying to make up his mind what would taste best, he was listening to the sounds that told of the waking of all the little people who live in the Green Forest. He heard Sammy Jay way off in the distance screaming, "Thief! Thief!" and grinned. "I wonder," thought Buster, "if some one has stolen Sammy's breakfast, or if he has stolen the breakfast of some one else. Probably he is the thief himself."
He heard Chatterer the Red Squirrel scolding as fast as he could make his tongue go and working himself into a terrible rage. "Must be that Chatterer got out of bed the wrong way this morning," thought he.
He heard Blacky the Crow cawing at the top of his lungs, and he knew by the sound that Blacky was getting into mischief of some kind. He heard the sweet voices of happy little singers, and they were good to hear. But most of all he listened to a merry, low, silvery laugh that never stopped but went on and on, until he just felt as if he must laugh too. It was the voice of the Laughing Brook. And as Buster listened it suddenly came to him just what he wanted for breakfast.
"I'm going fishing," said he in his deep grumbly-rumbly voice to no one in particular. "Yes, Sir, I'm going fishing. I want some fat trout for my breakfast."
He shuffled along over to the Laughing Brook, and straight to a little pool of which he knew, and as he drew near he took the greatest care not to make the teeniest, weeniest bit of noise. Now it just happened that early as he was, some one was before Buster Bear. When he came in sight of the little pool, who should he see but another