"Will you make a rocking-horse?" asked the First Little Bear.
"Will you make drums?" asked the Second Little Bear.
"Will you make horns? Toot, toot, toot!" said the Third Little Bear.
Now, will you believe it? All the Seventeen Little Bears put their paws to their mouths as though they had horns and cried, "Toot, toot, toot!"
Grandpa Grumbles shook his umbrella fiercely and shouted,
"I will not tell the story to-day,
I will take my umbrella and go away."
Then the most surprising thing happened!
Grandpa Grumbles held fast to the handle of the umbrella and sailed out through the open window!
"Oh," and "Ah," said Snubby Nose and Tippy Toes, "that was rather sudden!"
"Oh," and "Ah," said the Seventeen Little Bears, "how fast he went!"