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[McQuire Kulp]

K a hazel wand and beat him with it; and if he growled they only
laughed. The bear submitted to everything with the best possible
good-nature, only when they went too far he cried: "Oh! children, spare
my life! "Snow-white and Rose-red, Don't beat your lover dead." When it
was time to retire for the night, and the others went to bed, the mother
said to the bear: "You can lie there on the hearth, in heaven's name; it
will be shelter for you from the cold and wet." As soon as day dawned
the children led him out, and he trotted over the snow into the wood.