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Once upon a time, there was this bear.
One minute, he was lolloping about in the wood all happy-go-lucky . . . The next minute, he hadn’t a crumb-of-a-clue where he was. He was one lost bear.
The bear didn’t much like this place. Too many and not enough twigs.
Too much loud and and not NEARLY enough owl-hooting.
The bear was also a teeny bit scared and his furry legs had gone slightly
“Maybe the thing to do,” said the bear looking round, “is to nip into ‘Snooty Towers’ here, and get away from this racket.
But the spinny ‘Snooty Towers’ door made the bear feel dizzy, and being dizzy with legs was bad news.
What the bear needed was a little sit-down.
A little sit-down somewhere would see him tickety-boo.