Frightened reed sp
frightened by helen leah reed to-day i had the awfulest time dear mother in the wood that hill out there we were to climb and we'd been very good the nurse was walking up the hill when little ann and i we had to stop and stand quite still and ann began to cry for something moved behind the trees we felt so all alone said i to ann stop crying please i'll hit it with a stone cried anne oh listen hear it growl said i i'm not afraid of bears or lions now don't scowl you look so cross she said so then i had to smile and smile for anne was crying all the while and if we didn't hear a bear i'm sure dear mother one was there boys always must take care of girls you see you've told me so that's why i tried to pat anne's curls and walked with her real slow but when we heard nurse calling out come children come along come nurse you should have heard me shout anne says my voice is strong run anne i cried i'm almost five and i'll kill any bear alive
and if we didn't see a bear i'd truly think that one was there how glad i was when nurse turned round for everything seemed queer the trees looked strange and then that sound we didn't like to hear nurse laughed when we told her all about the bear we saw i came as quick's i heard you call and it's against the law for bears to live where people stay they are five hundred miles away but if we didn't meet a bear i'm sure that almost one was there
