"If you're polite, as you should be,
Perhaps a pair of skates you'll see."
Snubby Nose looked about the house. He looked high and low, but he could not find any skates. He rubbed his eyes and he rubbed his little red nose. He put on his cap and mittens and went to the pond. Tippy Toes came to meet him. He had two pairs of skates and cried,
"Where were you so long, goodness knows,
Here are your skates. Come Snubby Nose."
He kissed Snubby Nose on both cheeks.
The Seventeen Little Bears sat on the bank trying to fasten their skates. Their little paws got colder and colder every minute. Snubby Nose helped them fasten their skates and Tippy Toes helped them too. Then they put on their own skates and went skating away, and away, and away.
By and by Bunny and Susan said,
"'Tis rather sad now to relate,
We are too old and stiff to skate.'"
Grandpa Grumbles said,
"Chilly business this sport I think,
Let's go roller-skating in a rink."
Bunny and Susan said they must really go home and Grandpa Grumbles said he, too, would go to his own home.