cave and blew the cold
air into the woods, and soon the frost from his cold breath
whitened the twigs of the trees, and turned the leaves many strange
and beautiful colors.

"What a pretty woods you are making!" said King Robin to the Great
White Bear, but the Great White Bear only answered:

"If I were you I would take my family and go across the lakes, and
over the mountains, and along the river to the great bay!"

And the next night the Great White Bear stood in the door of his
cave and blew his cold breath through the woods, and when the
morning came the bare branches of the trees were singing in the
wind, and the leaves were drifting in the hollows, and King Robin
and his family were cold and hungry.

"If I were you, I would take my family and go across the lakes and
over the mountains, and along the river to the great bay!" said the
Great White Bear to King Robin.

And that night the Great White Bear stood in the door of his cave
and blew his cold breath through the woods, and when the morning
came the ground was white with snow, and the streams were covered
with ice, and the Great White Bear saw King Robin sitting in his
tree,--"If I were you, I would take my family and go across the
lakes and over the mountains, and along the river to the great
bay."

Then King Robin called his family together, and repeated to them
what the Great White Bear had told him,--"Across the lakes and over
the mountains and along the river to the great bay!" and King Robin
made each one repeat it over and over again,--"Across the lakes,
and over the mountains, and along the river to the great bay."

And that very day while the snow was still falling and the cold
breath of the Great White Bear was blowing through the woods, King
Robin led his family southward across the lakes and over the
mountains, and along the river to the great bay, and they could
feel the cold breath of the Great White Bear on their backs until
they reached the great bay.

And the Great White Bear blew his cold breath through the woods
until the forest was deep with snow, and the frosty air sparkled at
night, and the frozen trees snapped with the cold. "Now I have
frozen the Little Gray Mouse!" said the Great White Bear to
himself, and he went back to his cave and slept