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# The Brown Fairy Book, part 26 · page 2

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- [101](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/26/101/) — “Just carry me to your cave and eat me up as quick as you can.”
- [102](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/26/102/) — The bear was silent, and thought of his supper; and the two continued their journey till they reached another tree with a woodpecker tapping on it.
- [103](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/26/103/) — “Ah! those were better times when I used to paint all the birds such gay colours,” said the fox again to himself.
- [104](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/26/104/) — “Couldn’t you paint me too?” asked the bear suddenly.
- [105](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/26/105/) — But the fox shook his head; for he was always acting, even if no one was there to see him do it.
- [106](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/26/106/) — “You bear pain so badly,” he replied, in a thoughtful voice, “and you are impatient besides, and could never put up with all that is necessary.
- [107](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/26/107/) — Why, you would first have to dig a pit, and then twist ropes of willow, and drive in posts and fill the hole with pitch, and, last of all, set it on fire.
- [108](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/26/108/) — Oh, no; you would never be able to do all that.”

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