. Picture fables . BEAR. WHO is that dancing-master there ?Welcome, welcome, you wonderful bear!What a number of tricks you know !How gracefully on your hind legs you go!But one thing, Bruin, spoils all the play—You grumble in such an ill-temperd way. For the bear indeed it was no great run, To have to keep dancing when once hed begun ;, He wishd himself back in the woods again, To sleep at ease in his cozy den. Here, hungry for half the day was he ; He d rather go rob the honey bee. 38. THE DANCING MARMOT. YOULL give me a trifle, good people, Im sure;Im very unhappy, and wretched, and
. Picture fables . BEAR. WHO is that dancing-master there ?Welcome, welcome, you wonderful bear!What a number of tricks you know !How gracefully on your hind legs you go!But one thing, Bruin, spoils all the play—You grumble in such an ill-temperd way. For the bear indeed it was no great run, To have to keep dancing when once hed begun ;, He wishd himself back in the woods again, To sleep at ease in his cozy den. Here, hungry for half the day was he ; He d rather go rob the honey bee. 38. THE DANCING MARMOT. YOULL give me a trifle, good people, Im sure;Im very unhappy, and wretched, and friends in the corn-field are merry and gay,While I am here hopping and dancing for pay;In winter they sleep without danger or dread,While I must be waking and begging for bread. I pity you much, you poor little thing ;I too love to gambol, to dance, and to spring;But had I to dance at anothers behest,T would not seem to me like a game or a you t was, poor marmot, a sorrowful day, When cunning men caught you, and took you away. 39
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