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.
[Illustration]
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;
[Illustration:
“_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;
[Illustration]
[Illustration]
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.
[Illustration]
[Illustration]
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.”
[Illustration]
The
Roosevelt Bears
get out a
NEWSPAPER
[Illustration]
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.”
[Illustration:
“_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.
[Illustration]
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.
[Illustration]
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,
[Illustration]
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.
[Illustration]
[Illustration]
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.
[Illustration:
Copyright, 1907, by Edward Stern & Co., Inc.
“When Teddy Bears would rulers be,
And hunt for men in cave or tree.”
]
[Illustration]
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;
[Illustration]
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
[Illustration]
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.”
[Illustration]
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.
[Illustration: _Not in to callers; we’ve gone to bed. Signed Teddy B.
Teddy G._]
[Illustration]
The
Roosevelt Bears
visit
WASHINGTON
and complete their Tour of the East
[Illustration:
“_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.”
[Illustration]
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?”
[Illustration]
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.
[Illustration]
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.
[Illustration]
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,
[Illustration]
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.
[Illustration:
Copyright, 1907, by Edward Stern & Co., Inc.
“With outstretched hand and smiling face,
He gave them welcome to the place.”
]
[Illustration]
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.
[Illustration]
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.”
[Illustration]
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.”
[Illustration]
“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 [Illustration: Teddy B] and [Illustration: Teddy G]
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.
[Illustration]
[Illustration]
The Teddy Bears arrive home
[Illustration]
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;
[Illustration:
“_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.
[Illustration:
“_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.”
[Illustration]
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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
[Illustration]
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
[Illustration:
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
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[Illustration]
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
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TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES
1. Silently corrected typographical errors and variations in spelling.
2. Archaic, non-standard, and uncertain spellings retained as printed.
3. Enclosed italics font in _underscores_.
4. Enclosed bold font in =equals=.