She, growing anxious, had thrown a red shawl over her shoulders andwas sitting in a rocking chair, outside the cave, watching for thereturn of the fishermen.
How proud she was to see her boy with such a great fish which wasnearly as big as Bobby himself. She threw her arms around him andkissed him. Such a fine boy-bear, he was!
"Mother," grunted Father Bear, "let's have fish for supper. And letit be the fish that Bobby caught. The others we can eat forbreakfast."
So Mother Bear busied herself cleaning Bobby's big fish, and in avery little while it was stuffed and baked and supper was ready.
They all enjoyed it--especially the one who had caught it. How muchnicer a thing tastes when one has had some trouble in getting it.
Bobby dreamed much that night. If you think he dreamed about thefish you are mistaken, for it was to little Jane Bird and her sweetface, that his fancies wandered.
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Transcriber's note:
Minor punctuation errors have been corrected without notification.
For consistency with the rest of the book, 'boy bear' was replacedwith 'boy-bear' in Bobby Catches a Fish: "Grasping the _boy-bear_around".
Illustration caption was changed from "BOBBY, GET UP AT ONCE" to"BOBBY, BOBBY, GET UP AT ONCE" to match the list of illustrations.
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