Ist Miz Bear, the neighbers call

'Em, an' Mister Bear—'at's all.

Yes—an' Miz Bear scold him, too,

Ist like grown folks shouldn't do!

Wuz a grea'-big river there,

An', 'crosst that, 's a mountain where

Old Bear said some day he'd go,

Ef she don't quit scoldin'so!

So, one day when he been down