THE THREE BEARS.

ID you ever hear of the three Bears who lived in the

middle of a wood, in a- little house of their own?

One was a great big Bear with a very gruff deep voice;

the second was a middling-sized Bear, with an ordinary

middling-sized voice; and the third was a little wee Bear,
with a tiny voice like a squeak.

One day, they all went out for a walk in the wood be-
fore breakfast, and while they were gone, a little girl called
Silver-locks passed by and saw the nice little house stand-
ing there. So she opened the door and walked into the
Bears’ sitting-room. On the table she saw three bowls of
smoking-hot porridge, and by the side of each bowl was a
spoon. The first bowl was very large, and by it lay a large
spoon. So Silver-locks tasted the large bowl of porridge,
but it was so hot that it burned her mouth. Then she tried
the second bowl, which was a middling-sized bowl, and had a
middling-sized spoon, but this porridge was not hot enough.

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