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I said I hadn't noticed any, and we decided that we wouldn't bother with him, and went to visit a honey-tree that Cousin Redfield had found and thought of robbing, some night. I said I didn't think it was right to rob the bees of their honey, but that we would go and look at it, to take my mind from less pleasant things.
"Oh, Tucky," he called Tucky being Mr. Aspetuck Savage Bear's pet name "I've brought you some good news some of the very best kind of news." Mr. Bear was just that minute getting fixed for his third run. "What is it?" he said, holding himself back. "I found a big honey-tree, yesterday evening," Mr. Robin said. "The biggest one I ever saw. I'll show you the way, if you care for honey." Now Mr.
"Here," said Dinville aloud, as he read the cablegram, "is where Little Willie was a wise guy in buying that kid's story. He'll land in here tomorrow like a bear going to a honey-tree." His diagnosis was correct to the letter. Early the next morning Stuart came bursting in, full of importance.
"I must take her away." I had had no intention of taking her into my confidence, but I realized it would be impossible to make a start without her missing the girl. So I took the desperate course and did what I had warned Patricia not to do. She drew her knife and cut some straight marks on the honey-tree. "You see those?" she asked. I bowed my head.
She looked up, but the sky was clear; there was no bird flying low, as she had imagined; but as she walked along the murmur became louder, and Rebby began to look about her more carefully. A short distance from the flat rock was a huge stump of a broken tree, and Rebby soon realized that the noise came from the stump, and she approached it cautiously. "Oh!" she exclaimed. "It's a honey-tree!
It is! It is!" for she had seen the bees as they went steadily in a dark murmuring line, direct to the old stump. "A honey-tree" was a fortunate discovery at any time, for it meant a store of delicious wild honey. It was, as in this case, usually a partially decayed tree where the wild bees had swarmed, and where stores of honey were concealed.
Patricia was weeping softly, as one who sorrows with an aching heart, but not as one who is afraid. I gathered her up in my arms and made for the honey-tree close by. I stood her on her feet, and exhorted her to be brave as the time had come for us to take to flight. I plunged into the pea-vines behind the tree.
Robin back to the Sinking Swamps, to the honey-tree which Mr. Robin had really found there, for Mr. Robin is a good bird, and never deceives anybody. ONCE upon a time Mr. Jack Rabbit gave the Hollow Tree people a real surprise.
Cousin's sister smiled grimly, and whispered: "He has been watching us. He saw me come here when I scratched the tree. He has been hiding The marks I made on the honey-tree Look behind it the pea-vines . Tell Shelby I send him a little sister " And she had solved all her problems, and had passed into the compassion of the manito whose gentleness and understanding surpass all comprehension.
"But my Teddy bear Sallie Malinda can only make-believe walk!" exclaimed Sue. "She can only make-believe eat honey, too." "Then we'll look for a make-believe honey-tree," said Bunny. "Come on, Sue!" Sue seemed to hold back. "Come on!" cried Bunny again, always ready to start something. "Let's get dressed and go to hunt for the Teddy bear." It was very early, and Mr. and Mrs.
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