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Updated: June 19, 2025
Just think what you've been doing." "Pooh," said Sprawley, pretending he was not frightened, "what do I care? I can fix it all right." "How?" asked all the mermen together. "Well, listen, and I'll tell you," said Sprawley. "To-morrow Father and Mother Bear are going hunting, and all of us little cubs are to go with them.
Sprawley and all the other mermen dived off into the water and began splashing and shrieking and pulling at each other and getting farther and farther away. "All the same, I don't think you'll float me off," said Teddy to himself. Very quietly he crept to where the bear-skin lay on the ice, and taking out his knife he cut a long slit up the back of it.
I suppose this strange fairy cub will go with us, and when we stop to rest I'll get him away from the others and near the edge of the water. You must come under the ice and break off the piece he is standing on, and float him far, far away toward the South until he melts." "Yes, yes! we'll do it," cried all the mermen jumping about and shouting. Then they turned to Sprawley.
Once the Mother Bear gave a low growl in her sleep and Sprawley stopped still to listen, but she didn't waken. Teddy wondered what Sprawley was going to do, and so, as soon as the cub had disappeared through the mouth of the cave, he too crawled over to the opening.
He ran on and on until he was quite close to Sprawley, and then he saw the cub pause at the edge of a strip of open water, and turn to look behind him to make sure that he was not followed. He did not see Teddy, for the fairy had hidden quickly behind a block of ice. Sprawley turned toward the water again and gave a long, quavering cry that sounded like a call.
They climbed up onto the edge of the ice and sat there blinking at the sky for a while in silence; then one of them said in a trembling voice, "Well, we haven't been doing anything but just frightening the bear cubs a little." "How about knocking Fatty down with a piece of ice?" asked Sprawley, derisively. "Scritchy did that," cried all the mermen but one. "We didn't do it. Scritchy did that."
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