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The Three Bears
( Essanay)
By RUTH BREWSTER
IF I'm going to write a story, I may as well tell you right away that my real name is Georgiana Elizabeth Mainwaring. But I'd never know it if it wasn't printed out on my silver mug and my napkin ring, for everyone calls me just Goldilocks.
The other day, my mama went to the city, and she promised to bring me a new fairy book if I'd be good and stay with nurse. So that night, about six o'clock, I curled up in the big chair by the fire to wait for mama. In a little while she came.
"Here's a book about a little girl called Goldilocks, just like you," she said.
I was so happy when I saw the book. There was a funny picture on the cover, of three bears, eating porridge. But the author's name (papa always makes me tell him the author 's name when I read a book) wasn't there, so I cant tell you who wrote it.
I read it all thru, and then I fell asleep there by the fire, and dreamed I was the little girl in the book, and had all those funny adventures. I was running away from the bears and crying in my sleep, when mama came and woke me.
I was glad my dream wasn't true, but it was a very interesting story, and I 've copied it all out for you.
Once upon a time, there lived in a far-off coun the bears
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try a very pretty little girl, and they called her Goldilocks.
Perhaps you think this is rather a strange name for a little girl, but you would not have thought so if you had lived in those days and had seen 'her; for her hair was like fine-spun gold, and glittered and sparkled in the sun. Goldilocks was generally a very happy little maid, altho she had no little brothers and sisters to play with her; but one day her mother had to go out and leave her all alone, and then she began to feel very dull and to wonder what she could do to amuse herself.
She went out into the garden and began to pick flowers, then she trotted away into the woods behind her mother's house, and it was such a warm, pleasant day that she wandered on and on until she came into a part of the woods where she had never been before. Now, in this wood there lived a family of three Bears. The first was a GREAT BIG BEAR, the second a middling-sized BEAR, and a third was a little teeny tinybear, and they all lived together in a funny little hoUse, and very, very happy they were.
Goldilocks stopped when she came to the Bears' house and began to wonder who lived there.
"Ill just look in and see," she said, and so she did ; but there was arrive home no one there.
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