Fairy See-It-All said to Bright Eyes:
“You’ll have to practice words like these,
‘Thank you, thank you, and if you please’.”
Of course after that Bright Eyes tried to be polite.
Every night the four little Bears flattened their noses against the window panes and cried out:
“We are four little Bears, who don’t like to roam,
We want Mother Bear, we want to go home.”
Lady Wind blew around the wee house and Mother Moon peeped in the window, the Snowflake Fairy danced lightly down and at last, a year later, on New Year’s Eve, Fairy See-It-All brought her carriage that ran by itself, and tucked the four little Bears safely inside and away, away, away, they rode homeward.
They all were happy as happy could be, shouting:
“We’ve learned our lessons never fear,