Brenda and the Bears

"Where's Brenda?" asked Joanna, drumming on a little tin can with her finger tips. "Where's Yanni's friend Brenda? Why did he never see her again?"

"She's out hunting for bears," answered the New Boy.

"Bears?" asked Georgie, jumping up and looking around.

"Doesn't she miss Yanni?" asked Joanna. "After all, he's so handsome."

"Handsome?" asked Mary. "How can you say that when you haven't even seen him?"

"Handsome is as handsome does," answered Joanna, drumming on her tin can. "And he plays the drums like no one in this world."

"Where are the bears?" asked Georgie, looking cautiously at the dark corners of the Project.

"If I knew," said the New Boy, "I'd tell her, and she wouldn't have to look for them."

"Why does she want bears?" asked Joanna.

"She doesn't know why," said the New Boy. "She just wants them and needs them, just like Yanni needs the tigers in the intercoms. When all the animals disappeared from Earth, it wasn't Yanni she missed the most, and it wasn't the tigers. No, it was the bears. She's been wandering ever since, looking for the bears.

"She passed by here last week. I recognized her footsteps. But she didn't even stop to meet us. She didn't notice Yanni. She just looked in all the dark corners and listened to all of the intercoms."

Joanna said, "She must have been awfully sad when she left."

"I don't think so," answered the New Boy. "I think she likes looking for bears. When she left, she was singing to herself, 'Tiger here. Tiger there. Found a tiger. Lost a bear.'"

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