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That there lived a young miss, daring, funny, and fair,
And from having bright curls, she was called Goldenhair.
She had roamed through the wood to see what she could see,
And she saw going walking the Bruins all three.
Said she to herself, "To rob bears is no sin;
The three bears have gone out, so I think I'll go in."
She entered their parlor, and she saw a great bowl,
And in it a spoon like a hair-cutter's pole.
"That porridge," said she "may stay long enough there,
It tastes like the food of the surly old bear."
She tried Mammy Muff's, and she said, " Mrs. B—,
I think your taste and my taste will never agree."
Then she tried Tiny-Cub's bowl, and said, "This is nice;
I will put in some salt, and of bread a thick slice."
The porridge she eat soon made her so great,
The chair that she sat on broke down with her weight;
The bottom fell out, and she cried in dismay,
"This is Tiny-cub's chair, and oh, what will he say?
His papa is, I know, the most savage of bears,—
His mamma is a fury; but for her who cares?
I'm sure I do not; and then, as for her son,
That young bear, Tiny-cub—from him shall I run?
No, not I, indeed; but I will not sit here—
I shall next break the floor through—that's what I most fear;"
So up-stairs she ran, and there three beds she found
She looked under each one, and she looked all around;