Frances Margaret Fox

“ He eats hundreds of garden bugs at a time, Little Bear!"
"I suppose he has to eat enough to last while he sleeps all winter," suggested Little Bear, looking wise.
"Quail do not sleep all winter, and neither do our folks!" corrected Father Deer. "During the delightful winters when you bears are all tucked away in bed, sleeping as if you never intend to wake up, Bob White dines on weed seeds. He has been known to eat five thousand weed seeds at one meal!"
Soon Father Deer led Little Bear to Bob White's home, and introduced him to the family—Bob White, Mrs. Bob White, and their eighteen children. ”

“ Little Bear didn't go too near for fear of scaring the babies, who, with their beady black eyes, looked like balls of down.
29 While Father Deer nibbled the new wheat, Little Bear stayed near the nest where he could see the Bob White children eat their breakfast.
"What would you do if a man should come out here and carry off your babies?" asked Little Bear, who longed to take one of the babies in his own big paw and give it a weenty squeeze.
"Come, children," said Mrs. Bob White, "let us show Little Bear what would happen if a man should try to carry you off. ”

“ She didn't know that that sunbright clearing was Little Bear's playground; neither did Mother Goldilocks know it, nor Father Goldilocks.
"This is a long way from our camp," objected Mother Goldilocks.
"But morning walks are lovely," added Goldilocks.
"So they are," agreed Father Goldilocks. "Suppose we tap these trees and come after our buckets of sap early in the morning when the birds are singing. This once we will make a long journey for the first sap of the season. Tomorrow we shall begin tapping the trees in our own camp, and soon you shall have maple sugar." ”