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                           _BEDTIME STORIES_




                       NEDDIE AND BECKIE STUBTAIL
                            (TWO NICE BEARS)


                                    BY
                             HOWARD R. GARIS

 AUTHOR OF “SAMMIE AND SUSIE LITTLETAIL,” “JOHNNIE AND BILLIE BUSHYTAIL,”
 “CHARLIE AND ARABELLA CHICK,” “THE SMITH BOYS,” “THE ISLAND BOYS,” ETC.


                        Illustrated by LOUIS WISA


                            A. L. BURT COMPANY
                         PUBLISHERS · · NEW YORK




                            PUBLISHER’S NOTE


  These stories appeared originally in the Evening News, of Newark, N.
    J., and are reproduced in book form by the kind permission of the
    publishers of that paper, to whom the author extends his thanks.

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