Lhe T, ee Bears.

 

There was no reply, so Goldilock’s, after a while, pushed open
the door softly and timidly, and popped right into the bears’ house.

- But the bears were not at home. After they had made the porridge

for their breakfast, and poured it into their porridge-pots, they

_ walked out into the woods, while the porridge was cooling, thai

they might not burn their mouths by beginning to eat it too soon.

Goldilocks was very much surprised when she came into the
bears’ room, to see a great porridge-pot, a middle-sized porridge-
pot, and a wee little porridge-pot standing in a row.

“Well,” thought she, “I’m just as hungry as I can be, and
guess I'll eat some of the porridge in this great big pot.” She took
a taste, but the porridge was so hot that she screamed, and made a
spring that upset the pot, and it rolled on to the floor.

Then she took some of the porridge from the middle-sized pot,

but found it too cold.

 

There was only the little porridge-pot left, and Goldilocks tried
that. It was just right, and she liked it so well
that she ate up every bit there was.

In the meantime she had been looking around
for a seat on which to sit down. She came first to
the great big chair, but that was too hard.

She next tried the middle-sized chair,
but that was too soft.

Then she caught sight of the chair of
the little Bear, and that was neither too
hard nor too soft, but just right. So she
seated herself in it, and there she sat till
the bottom of the chair came out, and

   
  

Presently Goldilocks looked-arotind to
see if there was any room in which she
might lie down and rest. Sure enough
‘she found one, pand in it ‘Were three beds. |

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down she came plump on the ground. - ae oN