A Long Nap.
Did you ever see a bear? A bear is a creature as large as a small cow.—Some bears are black, some white, and some brown.
Bears live far away in the woods and mountains. They do not get together, as people do, and build houses: not they!
Every bear looks out for some hole in a tree, or cave in a rock, and there he makes his bed. If he can get enough to eat, he cares for nobody else.
When winter comes, bears of some kinds grow sleepy, and, crawling into a hole, or lying down beneath the shelter of thick trees, they shut their eyes and go to sleep. Like the little striped squirrel, and wood-chucks, and toads and lizards, they thus sleep till spring.
