As he shivered in the cold and tried to find enough to eat, he often wished that he had been as wise and as thrifty as the Squirrel family.
And the Squirrel family, being as kind-hearted as they were thrifty, often thought of the poor rabbit with pity. They wondered how he was getting on, but they never heard of him again.
SHAGGY BEAR’S MISTAKE
Father Thrift was carrying in wood for his fire. It had been a long and hard winter.
Suddenly he heard footsteps in the snow behind him. He looked around. And there—would you believe it!—stood his old friend, Shaggy Bear.
Shaggy was as thin as a shadow, and his teeth chattered with the cold.
“My, my, but you are out early this year!” exclaimed Father Thrift. “Come in and warm yourself by the fire.”