"No, I'll never find her," sobbed Sue. "She's been tooked away, same as your train of cars."
This thought of his own missing toy made Bunny feel sad. But he wanted to cheer Sue up.
"Oh, maybe your Teddy bear just walked off in the night to get something to eat," the little boy went on. "I get hungry in the night lots of times. I get up and eat a sweet cracker, if I've left one on the chair by my bed. Now let me think what it is bears like best."
"It's honey," answered Sue.
"How do you know?" her brother asked.
"'Cause I read it in the animal book. It told about a bear climbing a bee-tree——"
"What's a bee-tree?" interrupted Bunny.
"It's a hollow tree where a bee makes its nest and lays honey eggs," explained Sue, in a very funny way, you see. "And the bear climbed that tree and got the bee's honey."
"Wouldn't the bee sting him?" asked Bunny. "I was stung by a bee once, on Grandpa's farm, and I wasn't climbing the bee-tree either."
"Oh, well, that was an accident," declared Sue. "Besides a bear has thick fur on him and the only place where a bee can hurt him is on his soft and tender nose. And before he climbs a bee-tree, the bear puts thick mud on his nose like a plaster so the bee can't sting that, so he's all right."