"You get right out of here, you bad bear!" cried Lulu.
"No, I will not," said the bear, savage like.
"I'll go tell my mamma if you don't," said Jacko, for Mrs. Kinkytail wasn't in the kitchen just then.
"I'm not afraid!" growled the bear. "Here I come in after you."
Well, he was just getting in through the window, when Lulu Wibblewobble cried:
"Oh, let's blow a whole lot of bubbles at him and scare him!"
And that's what those brave animal children did. They dipped their pipes in the soap and water and blew forty-'leven-sixteen-twenty-one bubbles and shook them at the bear. And my! how frightened he was. He'd never seen soap bubbles before, and he thought they were red and green and yellow and blue cannon balls going to hit him on his nose and toes.
Quickly he turned around and crawled out of the window and down the pole before any of the bubbles could burst and make him sneeze, and he ran off to the woods, and so that's how he didn't eat anybody that night.
Then Mrs. Kinkytail came in and heard what happened, and she said Lulu was a very bright little duck girl to think of it. Then the mamma monkey called:
"Come into the dining-room now and have ice cream and cake." And, oh! wasn't it good!