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Then, and not till then, did Buster recover his usual good nature

Little by little, as he thought it all over, a look of shauess it wasn't the fault of that thing I ought to have known enough to keep htfully

”You got noFarmer Brown's boy's berries,” said Sa on froood corinned, and there was a twinkle in his eyes

”You ought to know, Sammy Jay,” said he ”I hope you'll always remember it”

”Thief, thief, thief!” screamed Sammy, and fleay

XXIII

FARMER BROWN'S BOY LUNCHES ON BERRIES

When things go wrong in spite of you To shty glad They are no worse; they're not so bad!”

That is what Farmer Brown's boy said when he found that Buster Bear had stolen the berries he had worked so hard to pick and then had run off with the pail You see, Far of a philosopher, one of those people who accept bad things cheerfully and right away see how they are better than they ht have been When he had first heard some one in the bushes where he had hidden his pail of berries, he had been very sure that it was one of the cows or young cattle who live in the Old Pasture during the suht stupidly kick over the pail and spill the berries, and he had hurried to drive whoever it ay It hadn't entered his head that it could be anybody ould eat those berries

When he had yelled and Buster Bear had suddenly appeared, struggling to get off the pail which had caught over his head, Farhtened to even h the brush even e had begun to couess I needn't be afraid of him,” said he ”I've lost my berries, but it is worth it to find out that he is afraid of ot to do is to pick theht be worse”

He walked over to the place where the pail had been, and then he remembered that when Buster ran away he had carried the pail with hi about his neck He whistled It was a corin as he realized that he had nothing in which to put ht,” cried he ”That bear has cheated an to laugh, as he thought of how funny Buster Bear had looked with the pail about his neck, and then because, you know he is learning to be a philosopher, he once ht have been worse

Yes, indeed, it ht have tried to eat o eat that lunch I left back by the spring, and then I'll go ho happily over Buster Bear's great fright, Far where he had left two thick sandwiches on a flat stone when he started to save his pail of berries ”My, but those sandwiches will taste good,” thought he ”I'rier in ht out loud, for he had just coht of the flat stone where the sandwiches should have been, and they were not there No, Sir, there wasn't so much as a crumb left of those two thick sandwiches You see, Old Man Coyote had found theobbled them up while Farmer Brown's boy ay

But Far about Old Man Coyote He rubbed his eyes and stared everywhere, even up in the trees, as if he thought those sandwichesup there They had disappeared as completely as if they never had been, and Old Man Coyote had taken care to leave no trace of his visit Faraped foolishly this way and that way Then, instead of growing angry, a slow suess sory too,” he muttered ”Wonder who it was? Guess this Old Pasture is no place for o home”

So Farmer Brown's boy made his lunch on blueberries and then rather sheepishly he started for hos that had happened to hi, he stopped to scratch his head thoughtfully ”I guess,”

said he at last, ”that I'ot a lot to learn yet”

This is the end of the adventures of Buster Bear in this book because--guess why Because Old Mr Toad insists that I must write a book about his adventures, and Old Mr Toad is such a good friend of all of us that I a to do it

THE END

THE ADVENTURES OF BUSTER BEAR

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