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The Bear was sitting on a wayside stump and looking up the road. That / is, he would have been looking up the road if his eyes had been open / instead of shut.
"He's asleep," whispered Buddie. "Don't wake him. " For she could not / quite bring herself to believe the Donkey's statement that bears / are the mildest creatures in the world, even if you don't eat their / porridge, and break their chairs, and rumple their beds, as the naughty / old woman in the revised edition of the old story did.