Back to their own camp went the Goldilocks family, and there they lived undisturbed all the season and made most delicious maple sugar.
As for Mother Bear and Father Bear, after they learned that maple trees have sweet juice they tapped trees and caught more sap, until one happy day, soon after, they, too, learned to make maple sugar.
Ever since, Little Bear, as well as Goldilocks, has had maple sugar in the springtime. He likes it.
WHEN THE STORM CAME
Big Father Bear and middle-sized Mother Bear were often obliged to leave Little Bear at home when they went away on business. Early one morning, when they were going after honey, they said, "Be a good child, Sonny Bear, while we are gone. Don't step outside the front gate or the back gate."
Little Bear promised, and all the forenoon he played happily in the garden, and sang:
"Ta-de-dum, dum, dum!
Ta-de-dum, dum, dum!"
as only a happy little bear can sing.
Early in the afternoon Mother Deer passed the house. "Little Bear," she called "there is a big storm coming, and your parents are away. Come home with me and stay until the storm is over."