Sunday, July 18, 2010 3:32 AM
Hey , 143 !
I'm feeling down at the moment , I'll just updated with a story of my favorite bear ('=
The oldest , smallest house you can imagine was about to be knocked down . All the things that once made the house nice and cosy had been thrown outside and piled up in the front garden , from the soft springy bed the owners slept in , to the old wooden floorboards they used to walk on …
.. and even , surely by some mistake , a little brown teddy bear .
He was trapped amongst all the other unwanted things , and couldn’t move . Then , one day , a very cold day , something fell from the sky … a little snowflake .
It landed on the teddy bear’s little nose and then was followed by many more . He began to get cold , very cold indeed . More and more snow fell , heavier and heavier . The little bear was now so cold that his nose started turning blue … so cold that his brown fur started turning gray .
He was cold , unloved and all alone in the world , and felt very , very sad .
Winter finally passed and the weather got warmer . One beautiful spring day , a little girl was playing near the old house , when she spotted the gray bear in the pile of unwanted things . He was like no other bear she had ever seen and she pulled him out from where he was trapped .
She dusted him down and lifted him high in the sky to look at him .
“A gray teddy bear .. with a blue nose?” she thought . “How strange!”
The teddy bear wanted to cry . He thought she didn’t like him and would throw him back with the other unwanted things .
“But he’s lovely!” she continued and she fell completely in love with him . She ran home as fast as her little legs would carry her , to see if her Grandma could patch him up as a lot of his stuffing had fallen out , and he was very much in need of repair .
She looked on as her Grandma replaced his stuffing and patched up his holes . His stitches had started showing where the fur had worn away , but the little girl thought he looked perfect .
It was all cosy and warm in the little girl’s house and the bear felt all cosy and warm in his heart . However , his nose was still blue and his fur was still gray , and they would never return to brown .
He was unique among teddy bears .
The little girl gave him a great big hug . She loved him more than anything else in the world , her little gray, blue-nosed bear .