![]() Said the Great, Huge Bear, in his great, rough, gruff voice.Īnd the little old woman had squatted down the soft cushion of the Middle Bear.Īnd you know what the little old woman had done to the third chair. Now the little old woman had not put the hard cushion straight when she rose from the chair of the Great, Huge Bear. ![]() Upon this the three bears, seeing that some one had entered their house, and eaten up the Little, Small, Wee Bear’s breakfast, began to look about them. Said the Little, Small Wee Bear, in his little, small wee voice. ‘ Somebody has been at my porridge, and has eaten it all up!’ Then the Little, Small, Wee Bear looked at his, and there was the spoon in the porridge-pot, but the porridge was all gone. Said the Middle Bear, in his middle voice. They were wooden spoons if they had been silver ones, the naughty old woman would have put them in her pocket. And when the Middle Bear looked at his, he saw that the spoon was standing in it too. Said the Great, Huge Bear, in his great gruff voice. Now the little old woman had left the spoon of the Great, Huge Bear, standing in his porridge. So she covered herself up comfortably, and lay there till she fell fast asleep.įairy Gold – A Book of Old English Fairy Tales by Herbert Coleīy this time the three bears thought their porridge would be cool enough so they came home to breakfast. And then she lay down upon the bed of the Little, Small, Wee Bear and that was neither too high at the head, nor at the foot, but just right. And next she lay down upon the bed of the Middle Bear and that was too high at the foot for her. And first she lay down upon the bed of the Great, Huge Bear but that was too high at the head for her. Then the little old woman went up stairs into the bed-chamber in which the three bears slept. And the naughty old woman said a wicked word about that too. So she seated herself in it, and there she sate till the bottom of the chair came out, and down came she, plump upon the ground. And then she sate down in the chair of the Little, Small, Wee Bear, and that was neither too hard nor too soft, but just right. And then she sate down in the chair of the Middle Bear, and that was too soft for her. Then the little old woman sate down in the chair of the Great, Huge Bear, and that was too hard for her. And then she went to the porridge of the Little, Small, Wee Bear, and tasted that and that was neither too hot nor too cold, but just right and she liked it so well, that she ate it all up: but the naughty old woman said a bad word about the little porridge-pot, because it did not hold enough for her. And then she tasted the porridge of the Middle Bear and that was too cold for her and she said a bad word about that too. So first she tasted the porridge of the Great, Huge Bear, and that was too hot for her and she said a bad word about that. If she had been a good little old woman she would have waited till the bears came home, and then, perhaps, they would have asked her to breakfast for they were good bears-a little rough or so, as the manner of bears is, but for all that very good-natured and hospitable.īut she was an impudent, bad old woman, and set about helping herself.Ī Child’s Book of Stories by Jessie Willcox Smith So the little old woman opened the door and went in and well pleased she was when she saw the porridge on the table. The door was not fastened, because the bears were good bears, who did nobody any harm, and never suspected that anybody would harm them. She could not have been a good, honest old woman for, first, she looked in at the window, and then she peeped in at the keyhole and, seeing nobody in the house, she lifted the latch. And while they were walking, a little old woman came to the house. One day, after they had made the porridge for their breakfast, and poured it into their porridge-pots, they walked out into the wood while the porridge was cooling, that they might not burn their mouths by beginning too soon to eat it. ![]()
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