The Teddy Bears arrive home

As they crossed the country from East to West

They stayed in their sleeping car to rest;

And but once or twice looked out to see

The towns passed through and country.

Said TEDDY-G, “I’d like again

To see that farm where we have been,

And that country school and those boys at play,

For that was our very jolliest day.”

“What I wish most,” said TEDDY-B,

“Is when we get off this train that we

Shall have those horses to carry our load

Back over the hills on the mountain road.”

The horses were there with saddle and rein

And met the Bears at the railway train,

And six mountain goats like baggage men

Were there to help them to the glen.

As back they traveled that mountain road,

The goats heaped high with the baggage load,

And the Teddy Bears on broncho backs,

Piled front and back with loaded sacks,

They looked like bandits with their spoil,

Or highwaymen after a day of toil,

Or perhaps more like true knights of old

Returning home with captured gold.

As they approached the place where they were born

TEDDY-G blew loud on a trumpet horn

A West Point bugle call he knew,

And a thousand friends came into view,

The Teddy Bears to greet with cheers

By this animal camp of mountaineers;

“The Teddy Bears on Broncho backs piled front and back with loaded sacks.”

For the news had scattered far and wide

When the Bears would reach the mountain side,

And the crowd had come from far and near

To welcome back two friends so dear.

The old bobcat with the bandaged knee

Was the first to shake with TEDDY-B,

And a young cougar and a panther bold

Helped TEDDY-G his load to hold,

And two big-horn sheep and a mountain deer

Stood up on stumps to lead each cheer,

And hundreds more gave welcome hand

To the most famous bears in all the land.

They had gifts for each bought in the East

And they passed them round at the evening feast,

And then told stories for nights and days

About their trip and the city ways,

And the fun they had and the tricks they played

And the things they saw and where they stayed,

And last and best, the time they spent

In Washington with the President.

“They had gifts for each bought in the East, and they passed them round at the evening feast.”

As the Bears turned in to their own home nest

And curled up snug for the winter’s rest,

Said TEDDY-G, as he fell asleep,

“If I should pray for things to keep

Of what I’ve seen either East or West,

Its boys and girls I like the best.”

UNIFORM WITH THIS VOLUME

IS THE

First Book of the Roosevelt Bears Series

ENTITLED

Teddy B and Teddy G

THE ROOSEVELT BEARS

THEIR TRAVELS and ADVENTURES

Verse by SEYMOUR EATON

Illustrations by V. FLOYD CAMPBELL

CONTAINS 180 PAGES. 16 FULL-PAGE COLOR PLATES

AN ILLUSTRATION ON EVERY PAGE IN THE BOOK

This book records in complete detail the wonderful trip of the Roosevelt Bears from their cave in the Rocky Mountains to New York City. It tells how these Bears entertained their animal friends at home, of the exciting race to catch the Pullman train, the eventful night on the sleeping car and the exciting adventures on the Kansas farm. Of the day spent in rollicking fun at the district school, the adventures at the county fair and the overnight trip in the balloon which took them from Missouri to Chicago, where they landed in Lincoln Park and spent some days in entertaining the children of that city, and seeing all the points of interest, including the Athletic Club and a modern department store.

Then to Niagara Falls to view the wonders of nature at that place, and next to Boston, where they meet with a rousing reception and are entertained at the home of Miss Priscilla Alden and her brother Will. While in Boston they visit all the places of historical interest, such as Bunker Hill, Plymouth Rock, Concord and Lexington. They have an exciting scorch in an automobile, which causes their arrest and an uncomfortable night in the Boston Jail. They receive honorary degrees at Harvard University, and afterwards take a canoe trip down Boston Bay and are swept out to sea by a storm and land on an iceberg, where they meet a polar bear who has just come down from the northern seas on his floating ship of ice. They are rescued from this place by a passing steamer and carried to New York City, in which place they immediately advertise for a guide to assist them in seeing the town.

Volume 1 closes with an interesting account of how they entertained the children of New York City at the annual circus held in Madison Square Garden, and which completes the account of the first half of the tour of the United States by Teddy-B and Teddy-G, the Roosevelt Bears.

These books can be procured from all book dealers in the United States and Canada. List Price, $1.50.

EDWARD STERN & CO., INC., PUBLISHERS, PHILADELPHIA

ANOTHER PUBLICATION, UNIFORM WITH THIS VOLUME

WILL BE THE

Third Book of the Roosevelt Bears Series, Entitled

THE

Roosevelt Bears Abroad

Verse by SEYMOUR EATON

Illustrations by R. K. CULVER

This will be published on September 1, 1908

PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED WITH PEN DRAWINGS AND 16 FULL-PAGE COLOR PLATES

After having rested for the winter in their home in the mountains of Colorado, the Roosevelt Bears, now thoroughly used to the modern ways of civilization, once more become restless, and having a strong desire to see more of the world, start out upon their European tour. This book will record in picture and in verse their trip across the Atlantic, the tour through Ireland, Scotland and England, where they visit Stratford-on-Avon, the home of Dickens, Oxford University, the Tower of London, and meet King Edward, by whom they are entertained in royal fashion. Then over to Paris and to Holland and Germany, where they encounter Emperor William in the Black Forest From Germany they go to Russia, where they take the Czar out for a carriage ride, and through some mishap land in a dungeon cell. They next visit Switzerland and the Alps, then down to Rome, Venice and Athens.

Feeling that their foreign tour would not be complete without a visit to Egypt, they take a trip up the Nile and see the Pyramids and the Sphinx, after which they start back for America, and are greeted upon landing at the steamer pier in New York City by that famous gentleman known throughout the world as “Uncle Sam.” This will undoubtedly be one of the most interesting books of the Roosevelt Bears series.

These books can be procured from all book dealers in the United States and Canada. List Price, $1.50.

EDWARD STERN & CO., INC., PUBLISHERS, PHILADELPHIA

EDWARD STERN & CO.

INCORPORATED

Announce for the holiday season of 1908 the publication of a high-class juvenile book, entitled

The Castle of Grumpy Grouch

MARY DICKERSON DONAHEY

A fascinating story for children of all ages, with enough of the fairy element to gratify the taste for the wonderful that is present in every child. There is a very nice moral in the story, and its presentation is made through the use of an idea which is entirely unique. The literary quality of the book is excellent. Profusely illustrated with color plates and pen drawings by

RUTH ELLIOTT NEWTON

Formal announcement of the date of publication of this story will be made to the trade in ample season by the publishers.

Edward Stern & Co., inc.

PHILADELPHIA

This book can be procured from all book dealers in the United States and Canada

TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES

Silently corrected typographical errors and variations in spelling.
Archaic, non-standard, and uncertain spellings retained as printed.