Curtis Dwight Wilbur

Name: The Bear Family at Home, and How the Circus Came to Visit Them
Author: Curtis Dwight Wilbur

The Bear Family at Home, and How the Circus Came to Visit Them

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“The Bear Family at Home, and How the Circus Came to Visit Them”, is a work by Curtis Dwight Wilbur. It explores elements such as Cub Bear, the Papa Bear and cave.

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Curtis Dwight Wilbur, The Bear Family at Home, and How the Circus Came to Visit Them

“ That night the little Cub Bear slept very soundly, and was out early next morning, wondering whether any more animals would come. Soon he heard a noise, as if some kind of an animal was coming up the path, but he could not see what it was.
Suddenly he said, "I see the strangest thing; it looks like a bird's head on a long pole. The eyes are as big as large marbles; the long pole-like neck seems to have hair on it. The bill is much bigger than a goose's bill." ”

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Curtis Dwight Wilbur, The Bear Family at Home, and How the Circus Came to Visit Them

“ It is a beautiful land, and there are the most beautiful trees there, and many, many caves where bears could live. I learned to love the land very much, and when I grew up, I married the most beautiful brown bear in the whole world. And we have four of the dearest cubs that you ever saw; but I always wanted to see Papa Bear, and Mamma Bear, and little Cub Bear, and Johnnie Bear, so I have come back, and it is a dreadful journey across a desert. ”

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Curtis Dwight Wilbur, The Bear Family at Home, and How the Circus Came to Visit Them

“ I went another way; but before I had gone far, I heard a sound that made my heart go pit-a-pat, pit-a-pat, for it sounded like a great grizzly bear, and before I could think what to do, the grizzly had caught me and told me that he was going to take me a long, long way into the woods. I asked him to let me go back to the cave to say good-by to papa and mamma, but the grizzly said that he had not time to let me go, and besides that, if both the Papa Bear and the Mamma Bear should try to keep me, he might have trouble in getting me, even if he were bigger than both of the bears put together. ”

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Curtis Dwight Wilbur, The Bear Family at Home, and How the Circus Came to Visit Them

“ THE ANIMALS PLAN HOW THEY WILL DEFEND THEMSELVES AGAINST THE CIRCUS MEN
One night the animals were all seated around in the beautiful cave, wondering why the men had not come to take them back to the circus. And they all said that if the men came they never would go. And the lion said that if a man came to get him, he would just hit him one terrible blow with his paw, and if that didn't kill him, he would just take the man's head in his mouth and bite as hard as he could, and that would be the end of the man. ”

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Curtis Dwight Wilbur, The Bear Family at Home, and How the Circus Came to Visit Them

“ THE COMING OF THE ANIMAL WITH THE LONG NOSE
The next morning the animals got up early, and the elephant said he thought that they ought to go down where the circus train had been wrecked, and see if there was anything more that they could bring up and put in the cave, as they had plenty of room now.
But while they were talking about the way they would do the work, they heard the beaver's tail go "B-a-n-g, b-a-n-g!" and they all looked up, and what do you think they saw? The queerest kind of an animal. ”

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Curtis Dwight Wilbur, The Bear Family at Home, and How the Circus Came to Visit Them

“ He liked to watch the men as they went down into the ground in the cages or elevators, and to watch them come up at night with their little coffee-pot-like lamps, hanging in the front of their caps to show them where to go in the dark. ”

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Curtis Dwight Wilbur, The Bear Family at Home, and How the Circus Came to Visit Them

“ And one time there was a great splash, and the biggest lot of water you ever saw came right down where the animals were.
"The hippopotamus thought it was fine, until he tasted the water, and then he made up the most awful face that you ever saw; and you can imagine what kind of a face it was, for he is homely enough anyway. His nose is bigger than his face, and his mouth is right on the end of his nose. ”

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Curtis Dwight Wilbur, The Bear Family at Home, and How the Circus Came to Visit Them

“ Jumbo said, "Well, I think the first thing we ought to do is to go down to the wreck of the train and get some of the things that we want from the wreck, before the men come back and take everything away." ”

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Curtis Dwight Wilbur, The Bear Family at Home, and How the Circus Came to Visit Them

“ Just then, as the little bear stepped from one log to another, both logs rolled, and down he went into the water. But he didn't mind that much because he could swim very well. The little bear swam to the surface as quickly as he could, but instead of getting his head out of the water, he bumped his head into the logs, for the surface of the water was all covered with floating logs. ”

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