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Miz Goose Deceives Mistah Bear

Story Stats

Rating: 4
Grade Level: 2, 3, 4, 5
Page count: 7

Author

Robert D.
San Souci

Appeared in

Sister Tricksters: Rollicking Tales of Clever Females

Story Summary

When Mistah Bear sees Miz Goose with her twelve goslings, he decides its time to have a family himself. He asks Miz Goose how he might achieve this. Having no love for Mistah Bear since a few of her cousins became his dinner, she decides to play a trick on him, showing him a pile of pumpkins which she says are eggs just waiting for someone to hatch them. Well, Mistah Bear settles down on the pumpkins and waits ... and waits ... and waits...