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Title: More About Teddy B. and Teddy G., the Roosevelt Bears

Author: Seymour Eaton

Illustrator: R. K. Culver

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*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MORE ABOUT TEDDY B. AND TEDDY G., THE ROOSEVELT BEARS ***

Transcriber’s Note:

The cover image was created by the transcriber and is placed in the public domain.

Copyright, 1907, by Edward Stern & Co., Inc.

“From noon till night they let things go,

In sky above and on earth below.”

MORE ABOUT

Teddy B. and Teddy G.

THE

ROOSEVELT BEARS

Being Volume Two Depicting their further Travels and Adventures.

By

Seymour Eaton

(PAUL PIPER)

Illustrated by

R. K. Culver

EDWARD STERN & COMPANY, Inc.

PHILADELPHIA

MCMVII

Copyright, 1906

By Seymour Eaton

Copyright, 1907

By Edward Stern & Company, Inc.

All rights reserved

Published September 1, 1907

MORE ABOUT THESE BEARS

When in the autumn of 1905, I created the characters of TEDDY-B and TEDDY-G I builded better than I knew. I brought these bears out of their mountain den in Colorado and started them on their tour of the East to teach children that animals, even bears, may have some measure of human feeling; that the primary purpose of animals is not necessarily that of supplying sport for the hunter. That this lesson has been abundantly taught is proven by the overwhelming welcome given the Teddy Bears by the boys and girls of the United States; and it is safe to say that the traditional “bear will get you” has now and forever lost its frightening significance.

This book is a sequel to “The Travels and Adventures of the Roosevelt Bears,” and completes the story of the tour of TEDDY-B and TEDDY-G from Colorado to Washington. The third volume will report in jingle and picture the tour of the Teddy Bears abroad.

ATH-DARA

Lansdowne, Pa.

LIST OF COLOR ILLUSTRATIONS

Page

“To ride bare-backed in the hurdle shute,

Or join a band with drum and flute.”

Cover

“From noon till night they let things go,

In sky above and on earth below.”

Frontispiece

“With bags on backs and sticks in hand,

They started their tramp across the land.”

11

“They climbed up ladders in clouds of smoke,

And lifted hose and windows broke.”

22

“‘Good afternoon,’ said TEDDY-B,

‘Is this Buster Brown and Tige I see?’”

35

“Dressed and ready for hours of fun,

With cavalry horse or battery gun.”

49

“TEDDY-B threw the monkey and made him yell,

And caught him every time he fell.”

60

“‘We’ve sailed before,’ said TEDDY-B,

‘We hit Chicago down a tree.’”

73

“As Dublin Mike and Pat from Cork,

They came on the stage to look for work.”

87

“Across the sand in running dash,

They struck the breakers with a splash.”

98

“At the Liberty Bell they took a try,

And hoisted it up both good and high.”

111

“‘You mind these things,’ said TEDDY-G,

‘Our breakfast hour is half-past three.’”

125

“They met a lad on his way from school,

Whom they stopped to question about a rule.”

136

“Said TEDDY-B, ‘Pay up the fares,

We’ll pass to-morrow as millionaires,’”

149

“When Teddy Bears would rulers be,

And hunt for men in cave or tree.”

167

“With outstretched hand and smiling face,

He gave them welcome to the place.”

178

How The

Roosevelt Bears

reached

NEW YORK

The Roosevelt Bears were born out West

In a big ravine near a mountain crest,

Where they lived as cubs and had such play

As Teddy Bears have every day.

But they learned some things as years went by

Of cities great and buildings high,

And trains that run at rapid speed,

And schools which teach folks how to read,

And circus clowns and phonograph

And other things which make folks laugh,

And big hotels where meals they say

Are served in style both night and day.

They had heard of men of great renown

Who lived and died in Boston town;

Of rulers brave and statesmen bold

And millionaires with barrels of gold;

Of men who work just day by day

For boys and girls and daily pay;

And of one they heard who works for fun:

The President at Washington.

These bears some travel books had found

Which told them the world is round.

They made up their minds that they would see

And learn about geography

And visit cities everywhere

And introduce the Teddy Bear.

They found some gold in a cave one day

Which they could use to pay their way.

“They found some gold in a cave one day.”

So one bright morn they said good-bye

To cave and creek and mountain high,

To an old bobcat with a bandaged knee,

To a young cougar and squirrels three,

To a big-horn sheep and a mountain deer,

And to other friends that lived quite near;

And with bags on backs and sticks in hand

They started their tramp across the land.

The black bear’s name was TEDDY-B;

The B for black or brown, you see.

And TEDDY-G was the gray bear’s name;

The G for gray; but both bears came

For “Teddy” because

Children called them Teddy Bears.

The “Teddy” part is a name they found

On hat and tree and leggings round,

On belt and boot and plates of tin,

And scraps of paper and biscuits thin,

And other things a hunter dropped

At a mountain camp where he had stopped.

The story tells how these Teddy Bears

Scattered forever all blues and cares,

And made fun and frolic and mischief too,

And did some tricks for bears quite new;

And how some boys, the stories tell,

Liked these two Teddy Bears so well

That they made a million for the stores to sell:

Some quite little, for children small,

And some as big as the bears are tall;

The brown ones looking like TEDDY-B,

And the white as funny as TEDDY-G.

Copyright, 1907, by Edward Stern & Co., Inc.

“With bags on backs and sticks in hand,

They started their tramp across the land.”

The story goes on to tell how far

These two bears rode in a Pullman car,

And the tricks they played on folks that night

When the colored porter put out the light;

And how TEDDY-G wouldn’t sleep upstairs

“On a shelf,” he said, “too small for bears.”

He wanted a window; he wanted to see;

And he kept folks awake till half-past three.

And the story tells of other tricks

In the dining car, and of a mix

When TEDDY-G pulled a rope on top

And brought the train to a sudden stop;

And how the two were put off the train

On a Kansas farm in a shower of rain.

The fun they had from that time on

Fills every page of Book Number One.

They started by learning the famous trick

How farmer boys get ahead so quick.

But the things they did would take your breath,

For they scared the farmer half to death.

The horses were put at gathering eggs,

And pigs walked round on two hind legs,

And sheep were given the corn to hoe

And potatoes to plant and wheat to sow.

The story tells how an angry bull

Made a pasture field look pretty full

And chased the two bears round a stack

And over the top and down and back.

From there to a district school they went,

On mischief and education bent,

Where things were done by TEDDY-B,

Who hit the desk and said that he

Would make letters dance and figures fly

And good boys laugh and bad boys cry;

The questions he gave; and the boys, their look;

They had never seen them in a book:

If a camel can go without water a week

How long can he go if he owns a creek?

And this, to bound the moon and sky,

And name the capital of by-and-by;

And a hundred more as hard and tough,

Till the children said they had enough;

But when they left the school that day

The children were happy, the farmers say.

The story tells how in railway style

They ran an engine for a mile

And spent a day at a county show

And helped the boys to make things go;

How they walked on ropes drawn good and tight

And jumped through hoops and landed right;

And of the ride in an old balloon

Which took them half-way to the moon;

And things that happened in the sky that night

And the way the world went out of sight;

And how they landed in Lincoln Park

In Chicago town just ’fore dark,

And the big hotel on a busy street

Where waiters brought them things to eat.

How they rang for bell boys, just for fun,

To give them a quarter and see them run;

And the fun they made in vaudeville;

Children are laughing about it still.

And the bargain sale; TEDDY-G got lost;

And the things they bought and what they cost;

And their trip to Niagara Falls that night,

And what they thought of Niagara’s height,

And the picnic boys and the boating stunt

When they shot the rapids in a punt;

And how the boys made cheering go

When the train pulled out for Buffalo.

The story tells of their further jaunt

And of TEDDY-G at a restaurant;

How he missed his train and lost his mate;

For TEDDY-B had risen late;

And the jolly crowds the bears to greet

To cheer them all along the street

As they rode from station to Common green

In Boston town like king or queen;

And of the home on Beacon Hill

Where Priscilla Alden and her brother Will

Entertained them gladly days and nights

While they were seeing the Boston sights.

But the things they did in Boston town

Are done in picture and written down

In Volume One by Teddy’s paw,

The jolliest book you ever saw.

It tells how they captured Bunker Hill

And worked like soldiers with stubborn will;

And how they got lost in Boston squares

Where criss-cross streets run everywheres;

And the time they had at Plymouth Rock

When trying to make forefathers talk;

And the auto ride to Lexington

Which nearly cost them all their fun,

For TEDDY-G would chauffeur be

And he ran that car like sixty-three;

It didn’t run; he made it sail

And landed himself and his mate in jail.

The story tells of their Harvard tricks,

Where they got themselves in another mix

In getting degrees, a double-L-D,

Which didn’t fit well on TEDDY-G;

It tells about the talking machine,

The funniest thing they had ever seen;

How they danced a two-step and sang as well

And heard Uncle Josh his stories tell;

It tells of the time when they went to see

Where the Boston patriots made good tea

In seventeen hundred and sixty-three;

And then of their sail in a little skiff,

And how a storm hit them a biff

And sent them out on the ocean wide,

Half-way across to the other side;

And how at noon there came in sight

A tower of ice all glistening white;

And how they met away out, there

On this iceberg white a polar bear;

And the stories he told of a northern pole

Which was never seen by a living soul,

But it carried a flag both night and day,

The stars and stripes of the U. S. A.;

And the story tells of the rescue made

And how the steamer crowds hurrahed

As “Yankee Doodle” the brass band played;

And then it tells, this jolly book,

How reporters met them at Sandy Hook

And asked them questions and pictures took;

And of New York and its buildings high,

And how the bears made money fly,

And dressed in style to see the town,

To do Fifth Avenue up and down;

And the guide they hired, wee Muddy Pete,

A lad whose home was on the street,

And his little dog, a terrier white,

Pete’s boon companion day and night.

The story tells of the circus show

Where the two bears helped to make things go;

How like heroes of a hundred fights

The Roosevelt Bears in colored tights

Stepped in the ring to dance or sing,

To ride or tumble or anything.

So these Teddy Bears are here to stay:

They came from the West one summer’s day

And journeyed East from town to town

And gathered fame and much renown.

Book Number One (boys know it well)

The pictures show and the stories tell

Of how they crossed the U. S. A.

(And made folks laugh both night and day)

To New York City, there to be told

That Teddy Bears in the shops were sold.

But the bears in the shops are only toys

Made to please good girls and boys.

These Roosevelt Bears, TEDDIES-B and G,

Are as full of mischief as you or me;

They laugh and talk and sleep and eat

And go around on two hind feet

And ride on cars and wear good clothes;

And the things they do, dear only knows,

For they read from books and music play

And lose themselves nearly every day.

But the story here and these pictures new

Tell things about them just as true

As the things that happened, children say,

From West to East along the way.

The

Roosevelt Bears

put out a

FIRE

One day the Bears took trolley rides

With Muddy Pete and Cribs for guides.

The car was open; they enjoyed the air;

They helped the conductor collect the fare,

And pulled the bell to start or stop,

And fixed the trolley pole on top,

And put on the brakes and rang the gong

When teams in front didn’t move along.

But they got in trouble when TEDDY-G

Climbed on the roof of the car to see

The working of the electricity.

“But they got in trouble when TEDDY-G climbed on the roof of the car to see the working of the electricity.”

Copyright, 1907, by Edward Stern & Co., Inc.

“They climbed up ladders in clouds of smoke,

And lifted hose and windows broke.”

What it was that hit him he didn’t know,

But it hit so smart TEDDY-G let go

And tumbled off a dozen feet

From the trolley top down to the street.

The car was stopped; TEDDY-B got out

To see what the trouble was all about;

The conductor gave expert advice;

Muddy Pete replied with words not nice;

While Cribs stood round as if to say

“Let us try it again some other day.”

“The thing that struck me,” said TEDDY-G,

As he walked to the curb on hand and knee.

“Struck me all over, outside and in,

At every place like a prodding pin,

And burned like fire and did all so quick

I hadn’t time to learn the trick.”

“Let the car go on,” said TEDDY-B,

“We’ll stay right here this town to see

And get some lunch and look around,

And walk up that hill to that college ground,

And climb that pole on the public square

And show the children playing there

That the Roosevelt Bears have been to school

And know A B C by rote and rule.”

“You may go yourself,” said TEDDY-G,

“And see the town, but as for me,

I climbed one pole to-day before

And it left my bones a trifle sore.

I’ll stay right here and rest a bit

The several places where I got hit.”

While thus they talked Muddy Pete and Cribs

Went off to buy some roasted ribs

And fried potatoes and muffins hot

And three cups of coffee in a pot.

As they ate their lunch they heard a ring,

Both quick and loud: ding! ding! ding! ding!

“A fire! fire!” cried Muddy Pete,

And off the four ran down the street.

TEDDY-G forgot about electricity

And ran as fast as TEDDY-B.

They found the fire in a dry goods store

And making its way towards three or four

Of the largest shops on the busiest street:

A clothing house and a store with meat,

And a great big grocery on the right

And not a fireman yet in sight.

The firemen’s hall was across the street

And in half a minute Captain Muddy Pete

Had told some boys that the job was theirs

And had given orders to the Roosevelt Bears

About the wagons and reel and hose,

And hooks and ladders and firemen’s clothes.

Muddy Pete.

“I’ve seen a thousand fires,” said he,

“And I know this thing from A to Z.

Slap on those togs: they fit you slick;

Boost out the reel; get busy quick;

Hitch up that rubber to that spouter there;

Twist round the stopper and let ’er tear.

Hang on to that nozzle, you TEDDY-G,

And point it straight at the fire you see.”

“Up to a roof with hose in hand

And on the ridge to take his stand.”

“Now let ’er go!” and with swishing stroke

The water struck the fire and smoke.

In sixty seconds the Roosevelt team

Were pouring water, a steady stream,

On the blazing store and the crowd near-by,

Making women run, and children cry.

TEDDY-G.

Captain Muddy Pete took full command

And told the Bears just where to stand,

And what to do and where to go,

And to point the nozzle high or low.

They climbed up ladders in clouds of smoke,

And lifted hose and windows broke,

And carried goods out to the street,

And burned their ears and scorched their feet.

They saved two boys from the highest floor

Who were in a room and had locked the door.

The wind was blowing both hard and high,

And it carried fire to roofs near-by.

TEDDY-G was ordered by Muddy Pete

To carry a ladder across the street,

And go up to a roof with hose in hand,

And on the ridge to take his stand,

And turn the hose all round about

Till every fire he could see was out.

And thus they worked like trained firemen

Till there wasn’t a spark where the fires had been.

TEDDY-B.

The man that owned the dry goods store

Took the Bears to his home for an hour or more

And Cribs and Pete for cream and cake

And offered them cash which they wouldn’t take.

He ordered a carriage with coachman swell,

To take them back to their hotel,

And promised to print in the local press

Their pictures large in firemen’s dress.

And a full report of the fire that day

And the things he heard the towns-folk say

About bravery shown and the speed they made:

Captain Muddy Pete and his fire brigade.

Said TEDDY-B, in their room that night,

“One fire a day is enough to fight;

I’m stiff and tired and burned and sore;

I’m going to sleep a week or more,

And read in bed and play I’m sick

Till I get tired of doing the trick.”

Said TEDDY-G, as he put out the light,

“You fought one fire; I had two to fight;

But I’d rather play with a house afire

Them fool again with an electric wire.”

But long before they went to sleep

They outlined plans next day to keep:

The Hippodrome and the Wax Musee

Were things they surely had to see.

The

Roosevelt Bears

see the

WAX MUSEE

At eight o’clock the following day

The postman left, the bell boys say,

A hundred letters for each Roosevelt Bear,

From East and West and everywhere:

Letters from friends at their mountain glen

Telling of trouble with hunting men.

A letter from the teacher of the Kansas school

With sums worked out and giving a rule

For answering the questions which TEDDY-B

Had given the class in geography.

A letter from the farmer where they spent a day

Asking them sure to return that way.

It said that the bull which scared them blue

Would be tied by the nose when they came through.

A lawyer wrote demanding cash

For the old balloon that went to smash.

“A hundred letters for each Roosevelt Bear, from East and West and everywhere.”

A Niagara lad sent local news

And an envelope filled with Niagara views.

A sophomore wrote to TEDDY-G

To ask how he liked his L-D degree.

Priscilla Alden sent a little note

Which said she was glad their little boat

Carried them through the storm so nice

And landed them safe on the berg of ice.

“But TEDDY-G went straight ahead, while the machine by TEDDY-B was fed.”

Letters in dozens from girls and boys

Sending them books and candy and toys

To give away when they wanted to treat

Deserving lads like Muddy Pete.

The last letter opened by TEDDY-B

Was an invitation to the Wax Musee,

To visit the show that day at three.

“I’ll hire a machine,” said TEDDY-G,

“And answer my mail by electricity.

There’s one at work on the floor below,

Where you feed in letters and let it go.

I’ve seen the writing of this machine,

Like a printed page in blue and green;

And the girl who owns it said that she

Would give a typewriting lesson free.”

Copyright, 1907, by Edward Stern & Co., Inc.

“‘Good afternoon,’ said TEDDY-B,

‘Is this Buster Brown and Tige I see?’”

Said TEDDY-B, “I’m afraid you’re wrong,

But if you want to try I’ll go along.”

So down they went to try their luck

At printing letters like a book.

The girl was out; the machine was there;

TEDDY-G sat down on the little chair

And started in with all his might

To pound the keys and make them write;

While TEDDY-B at every call

Fed in a letter, envelope and all.

“This machine writes Greek,” said TEDDY-B,

As he picked up the letters the type to see;

“At least the language is new to me:

Chicago is spelled without a C,

And Boston has neither S nor T;

And Priscilla Alden would make you sick,

She’s like a problem in arithmetic;

And that Kansas teacher is doing some tricks

With question marks and the figure 6;

And that farmer man, no one will blame

If he shoots us both when he sees his name.

You wrote this lawyer about the old balloon

In dollar signs enough to buy the moon.”

But TEDDY-G went straight ahead

While the machine by TEDDY-B was fed

Until every letter that both Bears had

Was answered some way, good or bad.

’Twas three o’clock when they left to see

The mysteries of the Wax Musee.

They found Buster Brown in the entrance hall

And a cat climbing up the building wall

With Tige below looking up at puss

And Buster’s mother trying to stop the fuss.

“Good afternoon,” said TEDDY-B,

“Is this Buster Brown and Tige I see?”

(Tige gave Buster a knowing wink

Which put him wise and made him think.)

“The Roosevelt Bears! I’ve heard of you;

TEDDY-B and G! How do you do!

You’re the jolliest bears I ever saw.”

And Buster shook each by the paw

While Tige seemed glad that he was near

And put on a smile from ear to ear.

“You come with us,” said Buster Brown,

“We know this place, upstairs and down;

There are people here in smiles and tears

Who haven’t changed for a hundred years.

We’ll make those laugh who look so sad

And the merry ones we’ll make them mad.”

But Buster’s mother made him stay

Right where he was in wax and clay;

And Tige looked round for a place to hide

As the Roosevelt Bears passed on inside.

They saw the eagle which stole the child

And carried it up in the mountains wild.

They stopped for a moment to see the King

And to ask Madame Patti if she would sing.

They saw Emperor William in a soldier suit,

But to all their questions he was deaf and mute;

So TEDDY-G, to make him look gay,

Turned the tails of his moustache the other way.

At the Roman Forum, TEDDY-B spoke out

And asked Mark Antony what ’twas all about:

This Roman crowd and Cæsar slain

And why they were doing the thing again.

And thus they went from place to place

Looking at people of every race

And crimes committed and prisoners hung

And no complaint from any tongue.

At the lions’ den TEDDY-G was wild;

A lion had killed a little child:

“I’ll go right in and smash his face.”

But a man who was there to guard the place

Spoke up and said, “That lion in there

Is not afraid of a Roosevelt Bear;

He’s made of wax, and that savage look

He wears all the time like a picture book.”

But TEDDY-G replied that he,

If he owned the place, would let folks see

That lions who did such things as they

Shouldn’t live at all in wax or clay.

Then on they went upstairs to guess

How Ajab played his game of chess.

Said TEDDY-G, “See if you can

Play checkers with this wooden man;

And while you play I’ll take off the lid

And find out where the man is hid.”

“TEDDY-G looked at him from head to heels, and his side door opened to see the wheels.”

Three games were played and TEDDY-B

Won every one so fast that he

Made the wooden eyes flow free with tears,

The first time in a hundred years.

TEDDY-G looked at him from head to heels,

And his side door opened to see the wheels,

And the man’s mainspring and his wooden heart

He examined with care and took apart,

But he couldn’t find out high or low

How this man of wood made the checkers go.

TEDDY-B was polite and said “Good-bye;”

And the man got up and wiped his eye,

And held out his hand as well ’s he could,

(It had several pieces all made of wood)

And said, “Your playing was pretty good.”

As the Bears passed out of the Wax Musee

A paper was handed to TEDDY-G

Which read like this in printing bold:

“Resolved, That mothers should never scold,

For boys are wax and scoldings stick

And impressions can’t be rubbed out quick.

Resolved, That the world was made for play,

And that boys and bears should have their way,

When fun is needed the blues to down.”

Signed by Tige and Buster Brown.

“The four took hands to skip and sing and to dance around in a jolly ring.”

The four took hands to skip and sing,

And dance around in a jolly ring.

Folks crowded near inside and out

To see what the fun was all about.

A thousand shoppers on the street

Paused as they passed the Bears to meet.

A speech was asked from TEDDY-B

As he stepped to the door the crowd to see:

“The U. S. boys and girls are ours;

They’re made of sunshine, love and flowers,

We’re bound with them to scatter blues

And we’re here to-day to spread the news.”

When TEDDY-B these things had said

He Buster’s Resolution read,

While Tige and Buster inside the door,

Became wax again as they were before.

The

Roosevelt Bears

visit

WEST POINT

The day was fine and the Bears were free

To take a River boat to see

The Palisades and Tarrytown

And to view the Hudson up and down.

A request had come from a young cadet

Of West Point school, whom the Bears had met,

To dine at the West Point Army Mess,

And to see the boys in their army dress,

And to sleep on an army barracks cot,

And to try their luck at a target shot,

And to ride bare-backed in the hurdle shute,

Or to join a band with drum and flute,

Or to hear good stories of army fights

After taps are sounded to put out the lights.

So they sent a wire to the cadet to say

That they would call that very day.

“To ride bare-backed in the hurdle shute, or join a band with drum and flute.”

They made the trip with but one mishap:

The wind blew off a newsboy’s cap

As he walked around on the steamer deck

Calling out the news of a railway wreck

And selling his papers and chewing gum

To the crowd of tourists “going some.”

TEDDY-G made a jump as he saw it go

And he and the cap went down below.

Like a diver he struck the water right

And quick as a wink was out of sight.

“Man’s overboard,” was called aloud;

And a cheer went up from the tourist crowd

As they saw in the water in a little while

The face of a bear with a pleasant smile.

The boat was stopped and a rope thrown out,

And in answer to the captain’s shout

TEDDY-G called back, “The water’s fine;

I’ve got the bait; pull in your line.”

Copyright, 1907, by Edward Stern & Co., Inc.

“Dressed and ready for hours of fun,

With cavalry horse or battery gun.”

“Like a diver he struck the water right and quick as a wink was out of sight.”

It didn’t take them long to get

TEDDY-G on board, all dripping wet;

The children laughed, he looked so queer,

With the newsboy’s cap hung on his ear.

He bowed to tourists left and right

And said something about his appetite.

He asked the steward to bring on some meals

As the steamer band played “Silver Heels.”

“The children laughed, he looked so queer, with the newsboy’s cap hung on his ear.”

At West Point landing the Bears were met

By a double carriage with the young cadet

And a cavalry mount to escort them round

To see the buildings on the ground.

They drove about for an hour or less,

Then went to their barrack rooms to dress

In soldier suits for the evening mess.

TEDDY-B said he’d be Colonel’s aide

And inspect the boys on dress parade,

While TEDDY-G said he’d march or stand

As leader of the soldier band.

The parade dismissed and the supper through,

The Bears had nothing else to do

But to roll themselves in barrack wraps

And to put out the lights at the sound of taps.

At reveille at six next day

They were wide awake and bright and gay

And dressed and ready for hours of fun

With cavalry horse or battery gun.

The boys had fun when TEDDY-B

Rode a cavalry horse down a shute to see

How to jump the walls and the hurdles take

Without a tumble or balk or break.

The horse was tricky, but the Bear was game

And he made him clear each thing that came,

Whether wall or water or brush or bar.

TEDDY-B would have tried a railway car

Or a barn or a tree or a load of hay

Or any old thing that came in his way.

The finest riding, the officers say,

That was done at West Point for many a day.

TEDDY-G took his turn at soldier fun

When he loaded and fired a battery gun.

He charged in powder and cannon ball;

“So simple,” he said, “it’s nothing at all.”

He asked a cadet his hat to keep

Till he stepped to the muzzle to take a peep

To see if the ball was in all right,

And if things in front were out of sight.

What happened next no one can tell,

TEDDY-G was lifted in air a spell

And whirled around so quick in space

He didn’t remember just what took place.

“I caught that ball, all right,” said he,

When the officer questioned TEDDY-G;

“But I don’t like catching balls like that;

My place I think is at the bat.

Next time you pitch don’t throw so quick;

You struck me like a load of brick.”

Said the officer, “For bravery shown

We’ll give you a title all your own;

You can drop your Harvard L and D

And be known as Colonel TEDDY-G.”

The boys got out the fife and drum

And made things all around them hum

As they marched ahead of the Roosevelt Bears

In army step down the flight of stairs

To take the ferry at half-past four

Across the river to the other shore,

Where a train was waiting to take them down

The eastern bank and back to town.

“Let us go to-morrow,” said TEDDY-G,

“And a first-class game of baseball see;

That ball they pitched at West Point school

Had hardly time enough to cool;

It struck my paws so fiery hot

I thought for a minute that I was shot.”

The

Roosevelt Bears

play

BASE BALL

The Bears were invited by Muddy Pete

To go with him to an East Side street

To visit children who never see

Either grass or field or flower or tree.

They loaded up like old Saint Nick

With bundles piled on high and thick;

Bouquets of flowers for children sick

And toys and candy for those at play,

And a hundred other things, folks say,

Who saw them on the street that day.

They went around from door to door,

Where bears had never been before;

Climbed flights of stairs and bumped their heads

To cheer up lads who were sick in beds;

Threw bouquets into windows high,

And picked nice toys and let them fly,

And candy boxes and twigs of green,

Wherever boys and girls were seen.

“They loaded up like old Saint Nick, with bundles piled on high and thick.”

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“TEDDY-B threw the monkey and made him yell,

And caught him every time he fell.”

But the jolliest sport of the day began

When they met an organ-grinder man

With a monkey trained to act the clown

And pick up pennies boys throw down.

TEDDY-G asked the man if he could go

With his monkey band for an hour or so;

TEDDY-B said he the troupe would join

And see that rich folks shelled out coin.

He’d give the monkey double pay:

Five cents an hour for half a day.

And the organ man may go, said they,

And join some other kind of play.

“Or if you’re tired,” the two Bears said,

“Go home for the day and go to bed;

We’ll use your organ and monkey clown

And pay you half a dollar down

And two dollars more when we are through

And return your band as good as new.

With help from Cribs and Muddy Pete

We’ll find our way from street to street.”

This bargain made, the Bears set out

To give the children round about

And old folks too along the street

The funniest kind of music treat.

TEDDY-G took the crank and just for fun

Made marches dance and two-steps run,

And polkas gallop and waltzes race

And street-songs step at a lively pace.

While TEDDY-B climbed up on top

Of the music-box stood on its prop

And threw the monkey and made him yell

And caught him every time he fell.

A boy got a drum for Muddy Pete,

And Cribs danced round on two hind feet,

And all five laughed and cheered and sang

And made things go with slap and bang.

The crowd of children filled the square;

Five hundred boys and girls were there;

And scores of men stopped work to see

The tricks of TEDDIES-B and G

Nickels enough and quarters too

And silver dollars, not a few,

Were collected that day by the players four

To give a fresh air week down by the shore

To boys and girls a score or more

Who had never seen the sea before.

The afternoon was good and hot

And the Bears sat down in a vacant lot

To count their cash and rest their feet

And eat some lunch with Muddy Pete.

They returned to the organ-grinder man

His music-box and collection can

And his monkey clown and some money too,

Just as he bargained they should do.

They gave the monkey an extra dime

For working two hours over time,

And a box of nuts as a special treat,

The kind that monkeys like to eat.

Seven boys came over to where they sat

With bags of sand and ball and bat

And baseball gloves and masks of wire

And asked if they the Bears could hire.

“We’re going to play,” a lad spoke up,

“The Bowery nine for a silver cup,

And we’re short two men; good players they;

But they couldn’t come to the game to-day.”

“And the Bowery nine,” another said,

“Are bigger boys by half-a-head,

And good at bat and quick to run;

They beat us last time two to one.”

“They don’t play fair,” said another lad,

“They count all balls both good and bad;

They claimed a foul when I made a base

And when I objected they slapped my face.”

“The Bowery nine,” said TEDDY-B,

“Is the kind of nine I’d like to see;

We’ll join the team and run the game

And win that silver cup just the same.”

“Give me some pointers,” said TEDDY-G,

“This game you play is new to me.”

The Bears were coached in every rule

And they both caught on like boys at school.

The Bowery boys, in a little while,

Came on the lot in baseball style.

They read off rules to the other nine

And helped lay out the diamond line.

In size, they said, among themselves,

These Roosevelt Bears are number twelves;

But the Bowery captain bet his hat

That neither Bear could pitch or bat.

“This game,” he said, “is as good as won;

We’ll beat those fellows ten to one.”

A Bowery boy went to the bat

While the other eight on some lumber sat

To watch the play and wait their turn

And see the Bears their fingers burn.

TEDDY-B as catcher in mask and pad

Met every ball both good and bad

With snap and skill so sure and quick,

He seemed to know the baseball trick;

While TEDDY-G at the pitcher’s box

Put balls to bat like hammer knocks

And with curves so neat and twists so new

The fielders hadn’t a thing to do;

For not a boy could make a hit

And one by one the plate they quit.

Said Muddy Pete, “Their cake is dough”

As he marked the score, a great big O.

“It’s our turn now,” said TEDDY-B,

“We’ll let those Bowery fellows see

That the team that wins this game to-day

Will make their score by honest play.”

And of all the batting that was ever done

In games that lost or in games that won,

In timing hits and in making base,

And in running home in the wildest race,

This play that day of the Roosevelt Bears

Beat baseball records everywheres.

They knocked that ball so hard and high

Above the clouds up in the sky,

That while it tarried out of sight

The Bears went round with all their might

And scored so fast for that silver cup

That Muddy Pete could scarce keep up.

Nine innings each they didn’t get,

For the Roosevelt Bears would be batting yet

If the Bowery boys hadn’t stopped the score

At naught for them to sixty-four.

The

Roosevelt Bears

arrive in

Philadelphia

The Bears went out to a country place

To see a machine take its trial race;

Invented by a New Jersey man

And made to fly on a novel plan.

This trial trip was to prove that day

That machines that fly have come to stay.

When the hour arrived to cut the cord

There wasn’t a man who would go aboard.

The Bears said they would make the trip

And every racing record whip

If they only knew how to steer the ship.

“We’ve sailed before,” said TEDDY-B,

“We hit Chicago down a tree

From an old balloon that brought us there

From a Missouri town at a county fair.”

“I’m not afraid,” said TEDDY-G,

“I’d like to go to the moon to see

If the man up there charges entrance fees

And what he does with all the cheese.”

But as they talked the machine got wise

And with buzz and whiz it began to rise

And broke the ropes that held it tight

And went towards the clouds and out of sight

With TEDDY-B and TEDDY-G

Grabbing at anything they could see:

The one on a bar beneath the sail

And the other on a rope to make a tail.

They started so quick and went so high

They hadn’t a chance to say good-bye.

They had ridden before and lively too,

On cow-boy horses and in frail canoe;

In an old balloon and a ’mobile car,

But this ride that day beat those by far.

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“‘We’ve sailed before,’ said TEDDY-B,

‘We hit Chicago down a tree.’”

They went over town and farm and creek

In one straight line like a lightning streak,

And it wasn’t forty minutes when

They came in sight of William Penn

Looking so wise and straight and tall

On the top of Philadelphia’s city hall.

TEDDY-B called out from where he sat,

“There’s a man ahead; I see his hat;

His hand is out; he means to try

To catch the rope as we go by.”

And TEDDY-G in cow-boy style

Let out the rope, nearly half a mile,

And as it coiled he pulled with might

And William Penn he lassoed tight.

A crowd of children down below

Looked up and saw the Bears let go

And come from the clouds like sailors bold,

With not a thing but the rope to hold,

“They came from the clouds like sailors bold, with not a thing but the rope to hold.”

And land all right on the old man’s hat,

Where both sat down to have a chat

And look about and view the town

And ask each other how they’d get down.

They looked over the brim to see Penn’s face

And ask him questions about the place:

What would happen if they should fall?

And how long it took to build the hall?

And what it cost and if he thought it nice

To pay so much for expert advice?

And one thing sure they’d like to know

Why this Quaker town was considered slow?

A crowd soon gathered round the square;

Police and engineers were there,

And business men and children too,

And each one wondering what to do;

For how to get the two Bears down

Was soon being asked by half the town.

The Mayor came out with megaphone

And called aloud up the tower of stone

And promised Father Penn a dime

If he’d give the Bears a high old time.

Not very far from where they sat

A door was opened in the Quaker hat

And a man put out his head to say

That the Roosevelt Bears could come that way,

But the door was small and it wouldn’t do

For neither Bear could be crowded through.

Said TEDDY-B, “Go to the street

And bring a rope six hundred feet

And William here will hold one end

While we to the square below descend.”

This plan was tried and in half an hour

The Bears had landed from the tower

And had shaken hands right then and there

With every child around the square.

From there they went, the papers say,

To a Broad Street bank to draw their pay,

Or to cash a check which TEDDY-G

Had got in New York as their circus fee.

When they asked for money the man inside

Said, “You’ll have to be identified:

Perhaps your names are what you say,

But prove it you must some other way.”

“Is that check good?” said TEDDY-B,

“Well, if it is, I’ll let you see

That G is he and B is me.”

But before he had time to act the bear

The check was taken and the cash was there.

To a shop they went on Chestnut Street

And dressed up new from head to feet

And got the bill and paid the fee

And started out the town to see.

Two little lads named Jack and Will

Had bought four tickets for vaudeville;

Four seats up front at a children’s show

That was given to help poor boys to go

To a training school where men are paid

To teach young lads a useful trade.

The boys had heard of the Roosevelt Bears

And they spent their money for the extra chairs

That very day on Chestnut Street

To give the Bears this special treat.

The boys had followed the Bears a square,

Intending to ask if they would care

To use up their time that day to go

With two little lads to the children’s show.

Jack was bravest and walked close behind

To see if the Bears were really kind.

“You speak to TEDDY-B,” said he,

“And I’ll put the question to TEDDY-G.”

“All right!” said Will, and he stepped ahead

And this to TEDDY-B he said:

“Mr. TEDDY-B, will you come with me

Right now a children’s show to see?

I have your ticket; it’s paid for too;

I bought it specially for you.”

“That was good of you; of course I’ll go,”

Said TEDDY-B, “to the children’s show;

We’re here to make the jolliest kind

Of fun for every child we find.”

“Me too,” said Jack; ’twas all he said;

His courage wasn’t in his head;

“But TEDDY-G to answer Jack lifted him high up on his back.”

But TEDDY-G to answer Jack

Lifted him high up on his back

And danced a jig right then and there

To show the crowd that a Roosevelt Bear

For serious people didn’t care;

They lived for fun and their fun they’d share

Free of expense and everywhere.

But the things that happened to Jack and Will

That afternoon at vaudeville

Were not on the program of the children’s show;

For the Roosevelt Bears, folks say who know,

Made the biggest hit of their lives that day

And put up an afternoon of play

The like of which was never seen

By old or young, by king or queen.

The

Roosevelt Bears

entertain

PHILADELPHIA CHILDREN

The theatre chairs were filled with fun,

For a boy or girl was in every one

Except the four which Jack and Will

And the Roosevelt Bears had come to fill.

The band was playing the latest air

And laughing children everywhere

As the Bears walked down the central aisle

In their summer suits cut Philadelphia style.

They looked so jolly and smiled so sweet

That the children clapped and stamped their feet

And waved their hands and stood on chairs

And cried “Hurrah for the Roosevelt Bears!”

But the Bears were large and the seats were small

And they found they couldn’t sit down at all;

So they stood in the aisle to view the crowd,

And thus spoke TEDDY-B out loud:

“Young ladies and gentlemen; children dear;

And chairman too, if there is one here,

TEDDY-G and I have come to stay,

To hear you laugh and to see the play,

And since we can’t very well sit down

We’ll go on the stage and help the clown,

And stand and sit on wall or floor

And do some tricks we have done before,

And some quite old and some quite new,

And keep it up till the show is through.”

The children called for TEDDY-G,

But he shook his head and said that he

Could sing a song or dance a jig,

Or sit on chairs either small or big,

Or talk to girls or with them dine,

But to make a speech wasn’t quite his line.

The speeches through, a theatre page

Took the two Bears back upon the stage.

As the curtain rolled up to the top

A man at the back asked the Bears to stop:

“Two clowns are on the stage,” said he,

“They have started their piece and I’ll let you see

That you can’t interrupt or make a noise

Or you’ll spoil this show for these girls and boys.”

“Your advice is right,” said TEDDY-B,

And out they went the clowns to see.

The clowns were scared when they saw the Bears

Step up behind them unawares,

And they ran for doors at left and right

And as quick as wink were out of sight.

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“As Dublin Mike and Pat from Cork,

They came on the stage to look for work.”

But they were ordered back to earn their fee

And to take a turn with TEDDIES-B and G.

And from that hour the play went smart

For the two bears helped in every part.

They made those two clowns march and sing,

Jump over chairs and through a ring,

And climb up poles and ride a wheel

And do a clog-dance, toe and heel.

And when they finished amid loud applause

The Bears ran off on all four paws

With the clowns on backs with jolly noise

Throwing kisses back to girls and boys.

The orchestra played “A Boy called Taps”

And then appeared a troupe of Japs:

A dozen little men in tights,

The heroes of a hundred fights.

For a little while the Bears stood by

And watched the Japs their muscles try,

And saw them balance balls and bricks

On parasols and billiard sticks,

And climb up ladders out of sight

And fall again and land all right.

Then TEDDY-B said he’d like to do

A Western schoolboy trick he knew.

He made the Japs stand in a row

And take hold of hands and not let go.

Then he caught one end and with whirling clip

He showed them how to crack the whip.

The Japs went whizzing in the air

And whirled in circles everywhere;

But they did the trick so smart and neat

That every Jap lit on his feet.

A man with hoops was next to play

And he asked if TEDDY-G would stay

And help him show the boys and girls

How wooden hoops were taught their twirls.

But this trick with hoops put TEDDY-G

In so many circles he couldn’t see.

They came flying at him through the air

And rolling in from everywhere;

And try his best he couldn’t throw

A single hoop and make it go.

He was hooped around from head to paw,

The funniest sight you ever saw;

But he enjoyed the fun and said that he

Wore rings enough that day for three.

But the jolliest thing that day was when

The two Bears dressed as Irishmen:

A Dublin Mike and a Pat from Cork

Came on the stage to look for work;

TEDDY-G as Mike with workman’s hod

And TEDDY-B as Pat from Blarney sod;

With blackthorn sticks their foes to hit,

And filled to the brim with Irish wit.

Their Irish brogue in joke and song

Made the children laugh both loud and long.

The last part of the show that day

Was sleight of hand, the programs say,

But why it failed to work out well

The man who tried it couldn’t tell.

A trunk was brought, a solid mass,

With iron locks and bound in brass.

The Bears were asked to get inside;

The trunk was locked and with rope was tied

And the man announced that at his command

He’d slide a curtain and there would stand

The Roosevelt Bears outside and free

With the trunk unlocked by any key.

But it didn’t work; the Bears weren’t there,

And it gave the man a little scare

To find he couldn’t do the trick,

And the trunk was unlocked pretty quick

For fear they’d smother for want of air,

But the Bears had gone no one knows where.

The trunk was empty; not as they feared;

The Roosevelt Bears had disappeared.

The Bears had gone, but no one knew

Just where to look or what to do.

Detectives hunted high and low

And questioned folks who ought to know,

And listened for the slightest sound

And hunted rooms beneath the ground,

And through the halls walked round and round,

But not a trace of the Bears they found.

At supper-time at home that night

The boys and girls told of their flight;

And the jokes they cracked and tricks they played

And the jolliest kind of fun they made.

And how they saw them locked and tied

So tight and fast that children cried.

Some little girls and wee boys too

Wouldn’t go to bed until they knew

How TEDDY-B and TEDDY-G

Got out of the trunk without a key;

But their papas told them not to mind,

That some one the Bears that night would find

And the papers sure the following day

Would explain in full how they got away.

The

Roosevelt Bears

spend a day at

ATLANTIC CITY

How the Bears got out of the box that day

Was never known, the children say;

But that afternoon, about half-past four,

They engaged fine rooms on the seventh floor,

About half-way up and half-way down,

Of the best hotel there was in town;

And there they stayed, enjoying a rest

And eating things the very best,

And seeing reporters and playing pool

And learning things not taught in school.

“There they stayed enjoying a rest, and eating things the very best.”

Said TEDDY-B one morning bright,

After spending a hot and sleepless night:

“The weather’s warm and sticky too

For fellows dressed like me and you;

I move we take a little run

Down to the shore for some ocean fun.

I’ve heard it said that the bathing there,

With sandy bottoms everywhere,

Is quite a fad with men of wealth,

Who go there simply for their health.”

“My health is good,” said TEDDY-G;

“And I’ve wealth enough for you and me;

But if bathing’s fun, that’s what I need;

My health consists of fun and feed.”

So off they went that very day

To try Atlantic City spray

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“Across the sand in running dash,

They struck the breakers with a splash.”

They took a ferry to Camden town

And got a train which shot them down

Across New Jersey and to the sea

So quick they scarce had time to see

The porter boy who brushed their clothes

And told them that hotels in rows

Lined every street and the ocean front

So thick they wouldn’t have to hunt.

And bathing houses, a score or more,

He said they’d find them near the shore.

They walked the boardwalk to and fro

And took a peep at every show;

They heard bands play and auctioneers

Make speeches which reduced to tears

The crowds of buyers who bargains sought

But didn’t need the goods they bought.

They took a turn with a wheeling chair

Of double size, to fit a bear,

With TEDDY-B, the lazy kind,

And TEDDY-G, the man behind.

A palmist read their paws to see

How long they’d live and what would be

Their fortunes in the years to come

When as millionaires they’d be going some.

They saw the fish-haul on the pier

And the loaded net with fishes queer.

They rode the donkeys on the sand

And held some children by the hand

While rides they took on donkey back

And made the bathers clear the track.

They went below with shivery feel

In a little boat where the water-wheel

Went splashing round with all its might

And pushed their boat into darkest night.

And then to a boardwalk place they went

Two colored bathing suits to rent.

They dressed themselves like thousands more

Who were walking up and down the shore;

And across the sand in running dash

They struck the breakers with a splash.

Of all the fun of every sort,

Since Columbus sailed from Genoa’s port,

That the old Atlantic ever had

With ocean bathers, good or bad,

With buccaneers or pirate crafts,

Or shipwrecked crews on lonesome rafts,

With fishermen in ocean wave,

Or boats sent out their lives to save,

Or tourists bound for foreign clime

With dinners upset all the time,

With ocean fish of every form

Which swim the same in calm or storm,

With Admiral Drake or Captain Kidd

Who stole some gold and got it hid,

Or with careless boys of whom you’ve read

Who sometimes fall in over head,—

This fun the Atlantic had that day,

Some fifty thousand bathers say,

Beat every record for a thousand years

And made waves laugh themselves to tears.

For the Roosevelt Bears had nerve and pluck

And as they faced each wave to duck

They plunged right in and got upset

Head over paws and awful wet.

They took boys out in water deep

And made them from their shoulders leap;

And rescued swimmers, four or five,

And brought them back to shore alive;

And when they tired of the ocean’s whirls

They played on the sand with boys and girls,

And ran and danced and had lots of fun,

And dried themselves in the mid-day sun.

When back they went to get their suits,

To put on trousers, coats and boots,

Said TEDDY-G from his little house,

“This bathing suit wouldn’t fit a mouse;

It’s shrunk all up like a lady’s glove

And won’t come off by pull or shove.”

Said TEDDY-B from the box next door,

“Why didn’t you put on three or four?”

But TEDDY-G didn’t see the joke

And said he’d rip the thing or choke.

And rip he did from end to end

In a way no stitch would ever mend.

“It came off that way both smooth and nice,”

Said TEDDY-G when he asked the price.

They went that night by lucky chance

To an ocean pier where a cake-walk dance

Was on in style with couples six

Who knew full well the cake-walk tricks.

“All four danced with toe and paw the smartest cake-walk you ever saw.”

Two pickaninnies won the prize;

They beat all records for their size;

And as they did their last encore

The Roosevelt Bears went on the floor,

And all four danced with toe and paw

The smartest cake-walk you ever saw.

The dancing finished with laugh and cheer

Then all the children on the pier

Shook hands with TEDDIES-B and G

And asked them both to come to see

A children’s dance, a pretty sight,

Which they would give the following night.

But the Bears replied with much regret

That Philadelphia they had not seen yet;

They must go back and crackers buy

To celebrate Fourth of July,

For they were bound to show the world

That when stars and stripes were first unfurled

And liberty rang sweet and loud

For warriors brave and patriots proud,

This flag and bell, right then and there,

Meant freedom for both man and bear.

The

Roosevelt Bears

celebrate the

FOURTH

TEDDY-G went out the night before

To Market Street, to a fireworks’ store,

And bought a load of crackers red,

And torpedoes round like balls of lead,

And great big whirlers which you light

And then run off with all your might,

And flags and kites and pistol toys:

The kind to give to little boys;

And rockets which go whizzing high

To shoot bright stars around the sky;

And sticks to hold and turn about

While balls of fire come popping out;

And drums to beat and horns to blow,

And things to shoot and things to throw;

And small balloons in colors gay

And a hundred flags to give away;

In all about twelve dollars’ worth

To celebrate July the Fourth.

TEDDY-G—His paw

They didn’t sleep a wink that night

But started out before ’twas light,

To historic Independence Square.

“For that,” said TEDDY-B, “is where

This western world beyond the sea

Unfurled the flag of liberty;

And that’s the place and this the date

Where loyalty must celebrate.”

“Oh you come off,” said TEDDY-G,

“It’s fun that I am here to see;

Who cares to-day who won the game?

We’ll shoot off crackers just the same.”

And this is how the two Bears talked

As down the street to the Square they walked:

TEDDY-B of heroes brave and bold

And things they did in days of old;

While TEDDY-G just had his say

About things to do that very day.

TEDDY-B—His paw

At the Liberty Bell they took a try

And hoisted it up good and high

And rang it out both loud and clear,

And at every ring there went up a cheer;

For the only day in all the year

When the crack doesn’t spoil the tone sent forth

Is Independence Day, July the Fourth.

At least that’s what the children say,

And they know this bell from Z to A.

But the fun began with the Roosevelt Bears

When boys stole on them unawares

And put a match to TEDDY-G

In his coat-tail pocket, where, you see,

He had stored some crackers, a good-sized bunch,

Along with hard-boiled eggs for lunch.

Copyright, 1907, by Edward Stern & Co., Inc.

“At the Liberty Bell they took a try,

And hoisted it up both good and high.”

Lickety-split-pat-pit-bang-boo!

And the coat tail smoked and split in two,

And hard-boiled eggs shot here and there

And the Bear went up and down in air.

But he told the lads he didn’t care,

That fun might start in anywhere;

At front or back, in hat or boot,

Put punk to powder and let it shoot.

“We are out,” he said, “for fun and noise

And when fun is trump, boys will be boys.”

And from that hour the lads and he

Shared all there was to do or see.

They strung a wire from tree to tree,

And then the fellows with TEDDY-B

Put crackers all along the wire,

To prepare the field for an army fire.

Said TEDDY-G, as he explained the play,

“We’ll fasten a flag on the wire half-way,

And you boys under yonder tree

Who have taken sides with TEDDY-B,

When I say the word, you put your fire

At the cracker next you on the wire,

“They strung a wire from tree to tree and then the fellows with TEDDY-B

Put crackers all along the wire, to prepare the field for an army fire.”

While I, if my boys a hand will lend,

Will put a match to the other end.

To reach the flag first, that’s the game,

And the side which wins this piece of fame

Wins all the crackers big or small

Which haven’t gone off when time I call.

If on both sides the armies flunk

Both captains use again their punk.”

When both the sides the rules did know

TEDDY-G called out, “One! two! three! Go!”

And at the words two armies shot

Their cracker guns both quick and hot

As on they marched along the wire

In powder smoke and blazing fire.

The flag was won by TEDDY-G

And prisoners taken, ninety-three

Of the finest crackers the others had,

All not shot off, both good and bad.

But this army game was children’s play

Compared with things they did that day:

From noon till night they let things go,

In sky above and on earth below,

With slap and bang, in smoke and noise,

Like any two July Fourth boys.

They sent balloons up to the clouds

And a dozen kites to please the crowds,

And then shot rockets just to try

To hit the things up in the sky;

They dug a hole down in the ground

And filled it full of crackers round

And shot them off to hear the sound.

They burned their paws and scorched their hair,

And when darkness came they did their share

Of firing rockets everywhere,

And in burning lights, a fiery red,

Till long past time for going to bed.

When the day was o’er said TEDDY-B,

“Let’s go to-morrow to the Zoo to see

The animals imprisoned there:

The elephant and polar bear,

The lions, tigers, and kangaroos,

And tell them one and all the news:

That July the Fourth is the day that we

Who own and love this country

Do celebrate in smoke and noise,

That we may teach our girls and boys

That this one day of every year

Is given them free to shout and cheer,

As a safety valve for them and you

To keep things running square and true.”

Said TEDDY-G, “I’ll freedom teach

And try to practise what I preach;

To-morrow I’ll let out the Zoo,

The elephants and monkeys too,

And the polar bear and kangaroo;

They’re just as good as me or you.”

The

Roosevelt Bears

visit the

ZOO

Said TEDDY-G, “The thing to do,”

As they reached the high fence round the Zoo,

In the early morning, about half-past two,

“Is to get in there with this load of cake

Before the keepers are wide awake.”

“You climb the fence,” said TEDDY-B,

“And throw this rope back here to me,

And pull up the baskets one by one

And we’ll land in there a good-sized ton

Of the finest cake that was ever made,

And strawberry tarts and lemonade

And cherry pie and sugar sticks

And red ice cream in good-sized bricks

And peanut candy and chocolate eclairs

And other things quite new to bears.”

“Don’t waste your time in telling me;

I bought these things,” said TEDDY-G;

And up he climbed, with business sense,

A tree which grew beside the fence,

And out a limb and dropped below

And called out, “All right; I’m in; let go.”

And up went baskets two by two

Over the fence into the Zoo;

And before the day began to break

The Bears had camped with their load of cake

On a grassy knoll where they couldn’t hide

And with dens and pens on every side.

“We’re in here now,” said TEDDY-B;

“What do you say we do?” said he.

“Let’s feed the animals,” said TEDDY-G;

“I move we let out two or three

And bring them here and feed them cake

And see just how our show will take;

And if they are pleased, why we’ll go round

And let loose everything on the ground.”

To the elephant house the two Bears went

And stirred up the biggest elephant,

And marched him over to their cake

Before he had time to get half awake.

“You mind these things,” said TEDDY-G,

“Our breakfast hour is half-past three.

If you are good you can have a snack

To keep you chewing till we come back.”

And they gave old Bolivar (that was his name)

Some things to eat till back they came.

Copyright, 1907, by Edward Stern & Co., Inc.

“‘You mind these things,’ said TEDDY-G,

‘Our breakfast hour is half-past three.’”

Then off they went to the monkey cage

Where monkeys of every size and age

Were using hands and feet and lungs

And saying good-morning in a thousand tongues.

TEDDY-B made them promise they’d be good

(At least that’s what he understood)

If he’d open the cage and let them out

And give them an hour to run about.

“We have,” said he, “some pie and cake

Which TEDDY-G will undertake

To serve out free in an hour or two

To every animal in the Zoo.

We’ll give you as much as you deserve

If you’ll act as waiters and help us serve.”

The monkeys grinned from ear to ear

And winked at each other a little queer,

And nodded their heads and seemed to say

That the two Bears’ orders they’d obey.

The cage was opened and the crowd went out,

Little and big, with laugh and shout,

Upsetting each other across the green,

The funniest bunch that was ever seen.

The Bears went then to the beaver pond

And told the beavers if they were fond

Of good ice cream served by baboons

To bring on their tails to use for spoons.

They saw some foxes red and gray

And asked them to dine with them that day.

The wolves looked hungry and said they’d see

That all left over was given them free.

The rhinoceros couldn’t accept their treat;

He had some rheumatics in his feet.

But in a cage near-by a kangaroo

Jumped twenty feet when they let him through.

An ostrich standing six feet high

Called out to the Bears as they went by

To hurry around with a piece of pie.

Two mountain goats with curling horn

Said the mountain crest where they were born,

Their father rented just for thanks

To the Roosevelt Bears to play their pranks,

And this they thought was cause indeed

Why they should be asked to the morning feed.

A hedgehog and a porcupine

Were the next pair asked by the Bears to dine,

Then a dromedary chewing his cud

Said he wouldn’t budge from where he stood,

But if they’d bring him a piece of cake

He’d see if he liked their kind of bake.

From there they went to the animals’ cage

Where they found the tigers in a rage

And the lions roaring to beat the band

In language the Bears didn’t understand.

A chimpanzee came near to see

And he made a face at TEDDY-G.

He was eating pie and said he feared

That their basket lunch had disappeared.

The Bears took warning and started back

To find ten keepers on their track,

And animals both big and small

Running wild on every mall,

And Bolivar with his trumpet loud

Calling for help to stop the crowd.

The monkeys had gone in a solid bunch

And captured the whole of the picnic lunch,

And out on limbs and high up on poles,

And on top of roofs and into holes,

And every monkey with cake or jam,

Or pie or tart or sandwich ham,

Or nuts or lemonade or cheese;

And Bolivar shaking poles and trees,

And hungry wolves and the kangaroo,

And mountain goats and a deer or two

Running wild from place to place,

Helping on the monkey chase.

“The monkeys had gone in a solid bunch and captured the whole of the picnic lunch.”

’Twas noon that day when keepers ten

And a police brigade of fifty men,

And a hundred boys and firemen six

Got the monkey troupe to stop their tricks.

The Bears looked on throughout the show

And helped on the fun by laughing so

For TEDDY-G, since he was a cub,

Or at Bunker Hill down in the Hub,

Said that making fun seemed to be his forte

And that he never had such lively sport.

But the keeper made him change his laugh

When he locked them up with a big giraffe

And told them to stay and pay a fine

When the police court met next day at nine.

The

Roosevelt Bears

go

FISHING

When the Roosevelt Bears had paid their fine

For the mischief done and the monkey shine,

They said good-bye to the big giraffe

And told him his neck was too long by half;

And asked the time it took his food

To reach his body from where he chewed;

And why he held his head so high,

And the size of collars he had to buy;

And why he was neither round nor square;

But the old giraffe didn’t seem to care;

He wagged his tail and winked his eye

And nodded his head to say good-bye.

When they quit the Zoo and got outside,

“Let us take a train for a little ride;

I’m tired of town and want to see

A farm or stream,” said TEDDY-B.

So a train they took without the fare,

For where it went they didn’t care.

When “Tickets, please,” the conductor said,

TEDDY-G began to scratch his head

And to think up names of towns he knew,

Like Hoboken and Kalamazoo;

But when “Tickets, please,” he said again,

TEDDY-G got busy with a ten

And said, “Take this for your railway pay

And stop the train some time to-day

Where fishing’s good if you go that way.”

The conductor asked them questions strange

About their plans as he gave them change

And slips of paper with holes punched through;

He said a fishing stream he knew;

He’d stop the train at any rate

And show them where to buy some bait

And fishing poles and hook and line

And a jolly inn to sleep and dine.

They reached the place that day at two,

And said good-bye to the railroad crew,

Copyright, 1907, by Edward Stern & Co., Inc.

“They met a lad on his way from school,

Whom they stopped to question about a rule.”

And went by a path up a mountain ridge

As the train went on across a bridge.

They found the place and got fitted out

With six poles apiece both long and stout,

And bait enough and lines and hooks

To fish a year in a dozen brooks.

For said TEDDY-G, “If fishing’s play

Then I want enough, for I mean to stay

Right by the game for at least a week

Until every fish that’s in the creek

Is caught and deemed and cooked and ate

Or cut up in pieces to use for bait.”

So down their rods and lines they took

To the stream below to try their luck.

Of all the fishing that was ever done

By Izaak Walton or his eldest son,

Or by boys who fish with pins for hooks,

That we read about in the picture books,

Or for salmon trout which weigh a ton

That they say are caught in Oregon,

Or for shad in the River Delaware,

Or for pike or black bass anywhere,

The fish that day caught by the Bears

Would take first prizes at all the fairs;

And the way they caught them left and right,

And the way they coaxed the fish to bite,

And the way they tossed the fish in air,

Landing in trees and everywhere,

And the way they made the chipmunks run,

The fish, themselves, enjoyed the fun.

For one fish spoke, vows TEDDY-G,

A great big pounder, two or three,

And said he wouldn’t miss the game

Even if he never lived again.

“A sport,” he said, “like TEDDY-G,

Is the kind that fishes love to see.”

TEDDY-G got his line caught in a tree

And climbed up on high to get it free

When a ’possum called down from above,

“If you come up here you’ll get a shove

Which will toss you off and break your head

And put you fifteen weeks in bed.”

But TEDDY-G just shook with glee

And said, “I’ll come right up to see.”

The ’possum scared and trembled so

He fell off the limb and down below

Where TEDDY-B broke an ugly fall

By catching him like a rubber ball.

They fed that ’possum fishes eight

And gave him hook and line and bait

And told him stories about the Zoo

And the things they let the monkeys do.

They met a man by the stream that day

Who has fished for a hundred years they say,

In ocean, river, creek and pond,

And mountain brook and lake beyond,

With statesmen bold and actors gay,

And farmer lads found by the way.

He told them stories of fish he’d caught,

And when fish were few, of fish he’d bought.

And then had talked of this big land

And of men he knew on every hand:

The true to love and those to hate

Who fish for gain with stolen bait.

He told them how to have most fun

When they struck the town of Washington;

“Because,” he said, “though I’m on the shelf,

I had some fun there once myself.”

TEDDY-B said he would like to know

How near a Roosevelt Bear could go

To the Capitol or Monument

Without being shot by the President.

But the man replied, “Trout-fishing’s fine,

But shooting bears isn’t in my line.

Take my advice and take your gun

When you turn your steps towards Washington.”

They shook his hand both long and tight

And said they’d leave that very night.

They could get a train, they said, at four

For Washington and Baltimore.

They tramped along a country pike

And wished for horses, train or bike,

Till they met a lad on his way from school,

Whom they stopped to question about a rule

To multiply and square and add,

And what teachers did with lessons bad,

And who made spelling and what ’twas for,

And the day and hour of the next big war,

And what athletics were all about,

And where figures go when you rub them out,

And why the moon isn’t always round,

And the difference between a noise and sound,

And on a fence, how long ’twould take

To rest an hour or a dinner bake,

And how things inside the earth were done,

But the lad couldn’t answer a single one.

Said TEDDY-G: “If it doesn’t rain,

And you’ll tell us where to get a train

And the fare to pay and how long the run

From the place you name to Washington,

And your age and weight and greatest height,

And two bears you know that never bite,

I’ll give you a dollar, quick as wink,

And let you have it before you think.”

Though he never learned this dollar trick

The lad was bright and he answered quick,

And they said good-bye and it didn’t rain

Till they stepped on board their Pullman train.

Said TEDDY-G, as he lit his pipe,

And bought some apples red and ripe,

And settled down in an easy seat

With a resting-place for both his feet,

“I’m tired of clothes; I’m tired of fun;

When I see the town of Washington

I’m off again for the woolly West;

I like the mountains much the best;

I want to live as free as air;

I’m satisfied to be a bear.”

“But you forget,” said TEDDY-B,

“That all these things we came East to see

Were made by the brains of every clime

To keep folks working all the time.”

“That’s all right,” said TEDDY-G,

“They can work ahead, but as for me

I don’t believe that bears were made

To be busy always at a trade.”

The

Roosevelt Bears

in

PITTSBURG

They were on the train and at their ease

When the conductor called out “Tickets, please.”

“We have no tickets,” said TEDDY-G,

“But cash we have, as you will see,

And to Washington we want to go

To see the President and to let him know

That we are fully satisfied

That Uncle Sam is tall and wide

And big around, of mighty girth,

The greatest show on all the earth;

His boys and girls are full of fun

From Omaha to Washington.”

But the conductor said, “You ought to know

If to Washington you want to go

You’ve started wrong; this train you’re on

Is a Pittsburg special from Washington;

And to-morrow morning, if we’re not late,

You’ll be in Pittsburg at half-past eight.”

The Bears looked dazed and then looked mad,

And then they laughed and both looked glad.

Said TEDDY-B, “Pay up the fares;

We’ll pass to-morrow as millionaires

And found a library and put through a deal

Of high finance in oil or steel.”

But TEDDY-G didn’t think so far;

He thought of night and the sleeping car;

He recalled some cranky things he said

When they made him sleep in an upper bed

On a train out West, and the banjo song,

And the things they did a little wrong

Till both were put right off the train

On a Kansas farm in a shower of rain.

The conductor heard this wise remark:

“If on this train, when the night is dark,

You want this Bear to behave himself,

Don’t make him sleep on a Pullman shelf.”

But the trip was made without mishap

And both the Bears enjoyed a nap

In lower berths till eight o’clock,

When the porter gave their berths a knock

And said, “Get up; it’s broad day light;

The Iron City is now in sight.”

But things outside looked black as night

And said TEDDY-B, “Do you mean to say

That this is Pittsburg and this is day?”

The man replied, “Get up; that’s smoke;

Take my advice and when you joke

About this town, don’t do it loud,

For Pittsburg people live in a cloud,

And their ideas about a bear

May be colored some by Pittsburg air.”

“What’s that you say?” called TEDDY-G,

“You seem to know your geography,

But let me say right here and now,

I’ll teach your Pittsburg people how

To dance and sing, to laugh and joke,

In mountain air or city smoke,

For they must know this very day

That Pittsburg too was made for play.”

Copyright, 1907, by Edward Stern & Co., Inc.

“Said TEDDY-B, ‘Pay up the fares,

We’ll pass to-morrow as millionaires.’”

They took a cab to a big hotel

Where things are done both smart and swell;

And breakfast over, TEDDY-B

On mischief bent, went out to see

What the telegraph and phone could do

To get a crowd their tricks to view.

He called up schools, every one in town,

And ordered all the children down

To the Old Block House at noon to see

The Teddy Bears teach history.

Then on the Mayor he played a lark

By ordering the police to Schenley Park,

To be locked up there till after dark;

“For,” said TEDDY-B, “the police you know

Might spoil our little Block House show.”

At costume shops each Teddy Bear

Bought a lot of Indian things to wear.

They planned at the Old Block House to meet

At the corner of a near-by street,

And from that spot like Indians race

And take possession of the place.

They did the trick in Wild West style;

Their whoops and yells were heard a mile;

But the fight was short; no one to scare;

There wasn’t a soul there anywhere.

They made the place from roof to floor

Like seventeen hundred and sixty-four

And put things into shape to fool

The boys and girls from every school.

The children came, five thousand strong,

A happy, merry, lively throng;

The little ones by teachers led

To study history, they said,

But the history lesson learned that day

Was livelier stuff, the fellows say,

Than most boys learn at public school;

For it didn’t follow any rule,

But just shot off with laughter loud

In every corner of the crowd.

The Teddy Bears, as Indians brave,

Did everything but behave:

They chased each other round the Block

With bow and arrow and tomahawk;

“They chased each other round the Block with bow and arrow and tomahawk.”

They climbed to the roof and danced a jig

And called to children small and big

To catch the arrows every time

And bring them back and get a dime;

And then to finish up the sport

They asked the boys to take the fort:

The boys to be the soldiers bold

And they as Indians the place to hold.

In this the boys came out ahead;

The Bears pretended they were dead,

While the boys to do the thing up well

Sent two dead Bears to the hotel.

In half an hour they lived again

And were out on bicycles for a spin;

This time to see men making steel,

And in Highland Park to have a wheel,

And to see the Zoo and the Bridge of Sighs,

And Luna Park, where they won the prize.

In the afternoon they put up a lark

At the entrance gate of Highland Park.

A little lad who flew a kite

Had got the string caught good and tight

On the entrance post when TEDDY-G

Climbed up the post and said that he

Would untie the knot and start the kite

Up to the sky and out of sight.

A rope was lying twirled around

Where workmen left it on the ground,

And TEDDY-G as quick as wink

And before the men had time to think

Caught up the rope and made it tight

From post to post, from left to right,

And out he went like a circus clown

And whirled around, head up and down,

And walked the rope and made more play

Than folks had seen for many a day.

At six o’clock they said good-bye

To busy streets and smoky sky

And to boys and girls for the day of fun

And started back towards Washington.

Said TEDDY-B, as a town they passed

Where furnaces made fiery blast,

“I’d rather be a Teddy Bear

Than stand that heat and work in there;

But this old world was made, they say,

So that men would work and bears could play.”

The

Roosevelt Bears

get out a

NEWSPAPER

When the station clock was striking four

The Bears got off at Baltimore.

They met a newsboy on the street

Who said the newsboys were to meet

That night at six in a nook of theirs

And they’d like to have the Teddy Bears

Drop in and help them plan and think

How best to earn some extra chink.

Said TEDDY-B, “I’d like to walk

Around to your club and hear you talk

And make a speech and help along

With dance or story, trick or song.”

“You ought to know,” the lad replied,

“That some months ago a newsboy died.

That night his papers didn’t sell

And he had no home; no one to tell

How cold he was and hungry too,

And he just died; was frozen through.

We mean to give a newsboys’ show

To buy a home where the boys can go.”

“They met a newsboy on the street who said the newsboys were to meet that night at six in a nook of theirs.”

This story stirred up TEDDY-G,

“You leave that show to me,” said he,

“I’ll use my wit from nose to paw

To make more cash than you ever saw.”

“I have a plan,” said TEDDY-B,

“Let us run a paper just to see

If our sheet won’t sell like sixty-three.

We’ll fill each page with jolly stuff

And give the boys the greatest puff.

We’ll reuse the price and earn the pay

To build that home in half a day.”

So off they went to try their hand

At a job they didn’t understand:

To edit, proof-read, print and sell

A newspaper and do it well.

The publisher took them all about

To show how a paper is gotten out.

They questioned every man they met

And with the manager made a bet

That they could put each page in rhyme

And get the paper out on time.

The bet was taken; the job was theirs;

A paper run by Teddy Bears

And they to have their own sweet way

With news and ads for a single day.

They said they’d do the best they could

And make a sheet that was bright and good.

Of all the orders boys ever hear

Who work on papers all the year,

The orders given to the boys that night

Beat every record out of sight.

They made the editors fume and frown,

And reporters chase all around the town,

And telegraph instruments click in chime,

And telephone bells ring all the time,

And linotypes go double speed

And set up type big enough to read,

And advertisers fight for space,

And presses go at double pace,

And everything hum on every floor

To beat all “scoops” ever made before.

But the paper was out on time next day:

The greatest paper, newsboys say,

That was ever printed in all the land

By the fastest press or done by hand.

Copyright, 1907, by Edward Stern & Co., Inc.

“When Teddy Bears would rulers be,

And hunt for men in cave or tree.”

They had floods and fires, and earthquakes, too;

And kings beheaded and discoveries new,

And ships upset and railroad wrecks,

And ten millionaires break their necks;

And the sun eclipsed at twelve at night,

And Japan start up another fight;

And Russia move clean off the earth,

And an elephant sleep in an upper berth;

And Niagara Falls turn upside down,

And the President wear a golden crown;

And ten feet of snow right in July,

And a man discovered nineteen feet high;

And robberies eight and murders ten,

And mosquitoes kill ten thousand men;

And a Wall Street smash, the worst in years,

That made the bulls and bears shed tears;

And Robinson Crusoe come back to life

And land in Baltimore with a wife;

And little Bo Peep who lost her sheep

Sold at auction mighty cheap;

And the money hid by Captain Kidd

Found in a box without a lid

By a colored boy in the Isle of Wight

A hundred thousand dollars bright.

A diamond mine they said was found

On Charles Street above the ground,

They had boys at school their lessons know,

In headlines deep a foot or so;

And all the girls in the world combine,

To go to bed at half-past nine,

Or if rules they broke to pay a fine.

And ending up on the final page

A prophecy of a future age

When Teddy Bears would rulers be

And hunt for men in cave or tree

With guide and gun, with horse and hound,

In a Colorado hunting ground.

The advertisements made that night

Were what the printers call a fright:

All shoved together, old and new,

Upside down and wrong side too,

Grocers had hats and caps for sale,

And tailors eggs, and barbers ale,

And department stores had railroad ads,

And big hotels sold writing pads,

And music stores sold soap and tea,

And theatres said admission free,

And a jeweller, the best in town,

Offered cheap a wedding gown.

A private school sold cheese and lard,

And furniture was offered by the yard.

When TEDDY-B saw what was done

He said he thought ’twould make good fun.

“For we mean,” said he, “to sell our sheet

And every record sale to beat.”

The papers sold at first for ten,

But when approved by business men

The price went up on every hand;

And with papers in such brisk demand

You couldn’t get a single sheet

By ten o’clock upon the street.

The money made for the boys that day

Bought them a home with grounds to play

And enough to spare to give each lad

The jolliest time he ever had:

A fresh air week down by the sea

With candy, cake and soda free.

The Bears were glad when their work was done

To start for the town of Washington,

To see the President and shake his hand

And then go home, as they had planned.

The

Roosevelt Bears

visit

WASHINGTON

and complete their Tour of the East

“Dee-lighted.”

When the Bears arrived in Washington

They set out at once to buy a gun.

They bought three guns and pistols ten

And suits and belts like fighting men.

When dressed complete then off they went

To the house where lives the President.

When they reached the grounds and the entrance gate

No one was near to make them wait.

The news had spread round everywheres

Of this visit planned by the Roosevelt Bears.

A policeman dodged behind a tree

When he got first sight of TEDDY-B.

Detectives wise with eagle eye

Didn’t stop to ask the reason why,

But ducked their heads behind a wall

And got under cover one and all.

A doorkeeper in gold and black

Said, “Wait a minute till I come back.”

And lawyers bold and statesmen brave

Who make the President behave

Moved out of sight as quick as wink;

To offer help they didn’t think;

But they were hunters just the same,

Though hunting bears wasn’t quite their game.

The boys who answer the call of bells

Lost all the breath they use for yells

In crossing lawns in serious fright;

They rein for home with all their might.

And secretaries, three or four,

Got under desks down on the floor

When they saw the Bears at the entrance door.

But one little lad who was playing round

When he saw the Bears, he stood his ground

And stepped up bravely to TEDDY-G

And said, “Who is it you want to see?”

Said TEDDY-G in his kindliest way,

“We have traveled East and have come to-day

To see the hunter who doesn’t scare

And who isn’t afraid of man or bear.”

The Bears by the lad were keenly eyed,

And he said as he beckoned them both inside:

“My Dad’s in here; but wipe your feet;

I think you’re the kind he likes to meet.

They stepped inside, and the man they saw

Looked them over from head to paw

And with outstretched hand and smiling face

He gave them welcome to the place.

Said TEDDY-G, when he caught his breath,

I thought this call meant certain death.

We armed ourselves with loaded gun

When we struck this town of Washington,

For here ’twas said we’d surely see

The man who chased bears up a tree

And with both eyes shut on darkest night

Could hit a bear and win a fight.”

“To stand your ground,” said TEDDY-B,

“Is the thing that we Bears like to see;

If fighting’s trump or simply fun,

We stand, eyes front, and never run;

But those men of yours who guard your fort

Should be taken West for a little sport

And taught the things you learned out there

When climbing mountains chasing bear.”

But he simply laughed at what they said

And joked of stories he had read

In newspapers of things they’d done

On their journey East to Washington.

They talked away for an hour or two

Of hunting trips and friends they knew,

And this country wide and its cities great

From Boston Hub to the Golden Gate.

The Bears were asked to come next day

At an early hour to have a play

On the White House grounds and in children’s tent

And to breakfast with the President.

This visit o’er they started out

To see the buildings all about:

The Capitol with its rounded dome

Where the U. S. Senate makes its home,

And congressmen from every State

Gather in halls to deliberate;

The Treasury with its vaults of gold,

As much as a dozen trains could hold,

And silver too, and crisp bank notes

Enough to load a hundred boats;

The Library with its pictured halls

And books stored high within its walls;

The gardens with their trees and flowers,

And a museum where they stayed for hours;

And last of all, built straight and high,

A shaft that stands against the sky,

Set off with stones which good friends sent

In memory of a president.

Copyright, 1907, by Edward Stern & Co., Inc.

“With outstretched hand and smiling face,

He gave them welcome to the place.”

TEDDY-G said he would like to see

That famous little cherry tree

And get some cherries red and sweet

To take back home to give a treat

To the big raccoon and the mountain goat

And the old cougar and the young coyote,

To make them square and help them try

To tell the truth and not to lie.

So off they went that day at three

Out in the country the farm to see

Where George’s father used to stop

And where the boy learned how to chop.

They found the place as the guide books said

And the cherry stump, but no cherries red;

The stump was there and the hatchet too

And neither looking very new.

Said TEDDY-B when these things he saw

And took the hatchet in his paw:

“Of all the shrines of history

Which you and I came East to see

This spot right here I say is trump;

This hatchet and this cherry stump.”

TEDDY-G said he would like to try

Little George’s axe on a tree near-by,

To prove to the world that he could do

A trick like that and own up too.

And chop he did an apple tree

And left a note where all could see,

“This tree was chopped by TEDDY-G.”

They breakfasted the following day

With the President and had their play

For an hour before, from early dawn,

With boys and girls upon his lawn.

They asked the President if he

Would come out West their home to see;

Said TEDDY-B, “We’ll treat you white

And put you up both day and night

With grizzly bears and panthers wild

And give you sport not quite so mild

As driving Congress with its load,

Or riding horseback down the road.”

“This strenuous life,” said TEDDY-G,

“Is too hard work by half for me;

I’ll start back home this very day

And for a month at home I’ll stay

And rest my eyes and sleep and eat

And get down again on all four feet.”

Said TEDDY-B, “Our journey’s through;

There’s nothing left to see or do.

We were treated well everywhere we went;

And we have seen the President.

And now for home, that’s what I say;

But I mean to journey back this way

To take a boat for London town

To see the king and his golden crown.”

The reporters called that afternoon

When they heard the Bears were going so soon

And begged a column at least of news

About their trip and plans and views.

TEDDY-B wrote out in boldest hand

These lines that all can understand:

“To the boys we say be always gay,

And with jolly play fill every day.

Be brave, be true, be square and white,

And don’t forget to your friends to write.

And to the girls: We’ve no advice;

You’re everyone both sweet and nice.

And to all the people whom we’ve met

Please say we leave, with much regret,

For our mountain cave and brook and tree.”

Signed and

As their train pulled out an army band

Played airs well known o’er all the land;

And boys and girls waved their good-byes.

And tears filled many children’s eyes.

TEDDY-B called back to the crowd that he

Would come East again each one to see.

And TEDDY-G said he’d do his best

To treat them well if they came out West.

The Teddy Bears arrive home

As they crossed the country from East to West

They stayed in their sleeping car to rest;

And but once or twice looked out to see

The towns passed through and country.

Said TEDDY-G, “I’d like again

To see that farm where we have been,

And that country school and those boys at play,

For that was our very jolliest day.”

“What I wish most,” said TEDDY-B,

“Is when we get off this train that we

Shall have those horses to carry our load

Back over the hills on the mountain road.”

The horses were there with saddle and rein

And met the Bears at the railway train,

And six mountain goats like baggage men

Were there to help them to the glen.

As back they traveled that mountain road,

The goats heaped high with the baggage load,

And the Teddy Bears on broncho backs,

Piled front and back with loaded sacks,

They looked like bandits with their spoil,

Or highwaymen after a day of toil,

Or perhaps more like true knights of old

Returning home with captured gold.

As they approached the place where they were born

TEDDY-G blew loud on a trumpet horn

A West Point bugle call he knew,

And a thousand friends came into view,

The Teddy Bears to greet with cheers

By this animal camp of mountaineers;

“The Teddy Bears on Broncho backs piled front and back with loaded sacks.”

For the news had scattered far and wide

When the Bears would reach the mountain side,

And the crowd had come from far and near

To welcome back two friends so dear.

The old bobcat with the bandaged knee

Was the first to shake with TEDDY-B,

And a young cougar and a panther bold

Helped TEDDY-G his load to hold,

And two big-horn sheep and a mountain deer

Stood up on stumps to lead each cheer,

And hundreds more gave welcome hand

To the most famous bears in all the land.

They had gifts for each bought in the East

And they passed them round at the evening feast,

And then told stories for nights and days

About their trip and the city ways,

And the fun they had and the tricks they played

And the things they saw and where they stayed,

And last and best, the time they spent

In Washington with the President.

“They had gifts for each bought in the East, and they passed them round at the evening feast.”

As the Bears turned in to their own home nest

And curled up snug for the winter’s rest,

Said TEDDY-G, as he fell asleep,

“If I should pray for things to keep

Of what I’ve seen either East or West,

Its boys and girls I like the best.”

UNIFORM WITH THIS VOLUME

IS THE

First Book of the Roosevelt Bears Series

ENTITLED

Teddy B and Teddy G

THE ROOSEVELT BEARS

THEIR TRAVELS and ADVENTURES

Verse by SEYMOUR EATON

Illustrations by V. FLOYD CAMPBELL

CONTAINS 180 PAGES. 16 FULL-PAGE COLOR PLATES

AN ILLUSTRATION ON EVERY PAGE IN THE BOOK

This book records in complete detail the wonderful trip of the Roosevelt Bears from their cave in the Rocky Mountains to New York City. It tells how these Bears entertained their animal friends at home, of the exciting race to catch the Pullman train, the eventful night on the sleeping car and the exciting adventures on the Kansas farm. Of the day spent in rollicking fun at the district school, the adventures at the county fair and the overnight trip in the balloon which took them from Missouri to Chicago, where they landed in Lincoln Park and spent some days in entertaining the children of that city, and seeing all the points of interest, including the Athletic Club and a modern department store.

Then to Niagara Falls to view the wonders of nature at that place, and next to Boston, where they meet with a rousing reception and are entertained at the home of Miss Priscilla Alden and her brother Will. While in Boston they visit all the places of historical interest, such as Bunker Hill, Plymouth Rock, Concord and Lexington. They have an exciting scorch in an automobile, which causes their arrest and an uncomfortable night in the Boston Jail. They receive honorary degrees at Harvard University, and afterwards take a canoe trip down Boston Bay and are swept out to sea by a storm and land on an iceberg, where they meet a polar bear who has just come down from the northern seas on his floating ship of ice. They are rescued from this place by a passing steamer and carried to New York City, in which place they immediately advertise for a guide to assist them in seeing the town.

Volume 1 closes with an interesting account of how they entertained the children of New York City at the annual circus held in Madison Square Garden, and which completes the account of the first half of the tour of the United States by Teddy-B and Teddy-G, the Roosevelt Bears.

These books can be procured from all book dealers in the United States and Canada. List Price, $1.50.

EDWARD STERN & CO., INC., PUBLISHERS, PHILADELPHIA

ANOTHER PUBLICATION, UNIFORM WITH THIS VOLUME

WILL BE THE

Third Book of the Roosevelt Bears Series, Entitled

THE

ROOSEVELT BEARS ABROAD

Verse by SEYMOUR EATON

Illustrations by R. K. CULVER

This will be published on September 1, 1908

PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED WITH PEN DRAWINGS AND 16 FULL-PAGE COLOR PLATES

Copyright, 1907, by Seymour Eaton

After having rested for the winter in their home in the mountains of Colorado, the Roosevelt Bears, now thoroughly used to the modern ways of civilization, once more become restless, and having a strong desire to see more of the world, start out upon their European tour. This book will record in picture and in verse their trip across the Atlantic, the tour through Ireland, Scotland and England, where they visit Stratford-on-Avon, the home of Dickens, Oxford University, the Tower of London, and meet King Edward, by whom they are entertained in royal fashion. Then over to Paris and to Holland and Germany, where they encounter Emperor William in the Black Forest From Germany they go to Russia, where they take the Czar out for a carriage ride, and through some mishap land in a dungeon cell. They next visit Switzerland and the Alps, then down to Rome, Venice and Athens.

Feeling that their foreign tour would not be complete without a visit to Egypt, they take a trip up the Nile and see the Pyramids and the Sphinx, after which they start back for America, and are greeted upon landing at the steamer pier in New York City by that famous gentleman known throughout the world as “Uncle Sam.” This will undoubtedly be one of the most interesting books of the Roosevelt Bears series.

These books can be procured from all book dealers in the United States and Canada. List Price, $1.50.

EDWARD STERN & CO., INC., PUBLISHERS, PHILADELPHIA

EDWARD STERN & CO.

INCORPORATED

Announce for the holiday season of 1908 the publication of a high-class juvenile book, entitled

THE CASTLE OF GRUMPY GROUCH

BY

MARY DICKERSON DONAHEY

A fascinating story for children of all ages, with enough of the fairy element to gratify the taste for the wonderful that is present in every child. There is a very nice moral in the story, and its presentation is made through the use of an idea which is entirely unique. The literary quality of the book is excellent. Profusely illustrated with color plates and pen drawings by

RUTH ELLIOTT NEWTON

Formal announcement of the date of publication of this story will be made to the trade in ample season by the publishers.

EDWARD STERN & CO., INC.

PHILADELPHIA

This book can be procured from all book dealers in the United States and Canada

TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES

1. Silently corrected typographical errors and variations in spelling.

2. Archaic, non-standard, and uncertain spellings retained as printed.

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Table of Contents

MORE ABOUT Teddy B. and Teddy G. THE ROOSEVELT BEARS Being Volume Two Depicting their further Travels and Adventures.

MORE ABOUT THESE BEARS

LIST OF COLOR ILLUSTRATIONS

How The Roosevelt Bears reached NEW YORK

The Roosevelt Bears put out a FIRE

The Roosevelt Bears see the WAX MUSEE

The Roosevelt Bears visit WEST POINT

The Roosevelt Bears play BASE BALL

The Roosevelt Bears arrive in Philadelphia

The Roosevelt Bears entertain PHILADELPHIA CHILDREN

The Roosevelt Bears spend a day at ATLANTIC CITY

The Roosevelt Bears celebrate the FOURTH

The Roosevelt Bears visit the ZOO

The Roosevelt Bears go FISHING

The Roosevelt Bears in PITTSBURG

The Roosevelt Bears get out a NEWSPAPER

The Roosevelt Bears visit WASHINGTON and complete their Tour of the East

The Teddy Bears arrive home

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