"What name did I call you?" asked Kernel Cob.
"Would you like to be called after a make-believe bear if you were a real one?" asked the Cub.
"No, I guess not," said Kernel Cob.
"Well then," said the Cub.
"Excuse me," said Kernel Cob, for he liked to see anybody who had spunk.
And they shook hands and were friends at once.
"Who are you?" asked the Cub, "and what are you doing up here?"
"I'm Kernel Cob," said he, "and this is Sweetclover and Jackie Tar," and the cub came forward and shook hands with them, and really he had very nice manners for a bear who lived so far away from nice people and things.
"You haven't told me what you are doing way up here."
"We're looking for Jackie and Peggs' motheranfather," answered Kernel Cob, "and we believe they are up here near the North Pole. Are we far away from it?"