So they did, making the cake even better than before. Oh, with such thick chocolate and cocoanut on! and then they hid down behind the stove, and watched the window.
Pretty soon a big, shaggy paw, with long, sharp claws on it, was put in the open window, and the paw went right on top of the cake, and scraped off some of the chocolate and cocoanut.
“Ah! Yum-yum! That is most delicious!” exclaimed a grumbling, rumbling voice, and the paw, all covered with the cake chocolate, just as a lollypop stick is covered with candy, went out of the window, and the paw was all cleaned off somehow, when it came back again. More chocolate was then scraped off the cake by those sharp claws.
“Oh, ho! This is simply scrumptious!” went on the voice, as the paw was pulled back. Then a third time it came, and scraped off what was left of the chocolate and cocoanut.
“Oh, how perfectly delightful and proper this sweet stuff is!” cried the voice. “I wish there was more!”
Then a great, big, shaggy, ugly bear, the same one that once chased Nannie Goat, stuck his head in the window.
“Oh, did you scrape the chocolate off my cake?” asked Mrs. No-Tail.
“I did,” the bear said, “have you any more?”
“No, indeed,” she answered. “But you are a bold, bad creature, and if you don’t get away from here I’ll have you arrested.”
“I am not a bit afraid,” answered the bear impolitely, “and as there is no more chocolate I’ll take the cake.”