“I’m plowing,” the Man answered. “After I finish plowing I’m going to harrow and then plant the field, half in wheat and half in turnips.”
“Yum! Yum!” Osmo thought to himself. “Good food that—wheat and turnips!”
Aloud he said:
“I know how to plow and harrow. What do you say to my helping you?”
“If you help me,” the Man said, “I’ll share the harvest with you.”
So Osmo set to work and between them they soon had the field plowed, harrowed, and planted.
When Autumn came they went to get their crops.
At the turnip field the Man said:
“Now what do you want as your share—the part that grows above the ground or the part that grows below?”
Osmo, the Bear, seeing how green and luxuriant the turnip tops were, said: