Laura Rountree Smith

“ Bunny and Susan and Grandpa Grumbles cried, "Hush, be still, stop crying, and tell us what is the matter."
Grandpa Grumbles asked, "Did you hurt your ugly little nose?"
Then Snubby Nose cried and he screamed and he howled louder than ever.
Bunny asked, "Did you get stuck fast in another snowdrift?"
Snubby Nose cried so loudly that they did not hear the "patter, patter, patter" of little feet. They did not know that Tippy Toes was coming down the staircase. Tippy Toes came dancing into the room, singing at the top of his lungs,
"Who is so ugly? Nobody knows." ”

“ Snubby Nose and Tippy Toes said, "Will it be a candy-shop?"
Grandpa Grumbles shook his green cotton umbrella fiercely and grumbled, "I told you, you could not guess. I am going to open a Toy Shop!"
"A Toy Shop!" shouted the Seventeen Little Bears at the top of their lungs. "A Toy Shop!"
"Who is telling this story?" asked Grandpa Grumbles. He began to tell the story in real earnest. He said, "I am going to open a Toy Shop in the woods."
"Not a real Toy Shop," said Snubby Nose. "You don't mean a real Toy
Shop," said Tippy Toes. ”

“ So they opened the door and let old Grizzly in. Then they all had a jolly time, and Bunny told why he put up the sign on the house.
"You may have a new kind of scarlet fever," said Old Grizzly, "maybe I shall catch it!" and they all laughed.
Old Grizzly had been in a circus, and had traveled in the East and in the West. He could tell lovely stories, so he stayed a long time and told stories, and Susan Cotton-Tail went out in the kitchen and came back with a mince pie in each hand. (These pies had been hidden away in a tin.) ”