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 came dancing up the street, each hugging a bear, my outraged soul wept with the dolls!

After this followed what I suppose was a Teddy Bear tea-party, but on account of the thickness of the foliage I could not see just what they did, or what they had to eat.

I sympathized so deeply with the dolls that I longed to go to the group on the porch and fold them in my arms. No wonder they wept! To think of Teddy Bears taking their place in the hearts of their little mothers!

Now that I looked closely at the dolls, I saw that they had been sadly neglected, for they appeared like the beggars that came to town, some in rags, and some in tags, while the bears were gaily clothed in sweaters of all colors of the rainbow,