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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.