The conductor heard this wise remark: “If on this train, when the night is dark, You want this Bear to behave himself, Don’t make him sleep on a Pullman shelf.”
But the trip was made without mishap And both the Bears enjoyed a nap In lower berths till eight o’clock, When the porter gave their berths a knock And said, “Get up; it’s broad day light; The Iron City is now in sight.”
But things outside looked black as night And said TEDDY-B, “Do you mean to say That this is Pittsburg and this is day?”
The man replied, “Get up; that’s smoke; Take my advice and when you joke About this town, don’t do it loud, For Pittsburg people live in a cloud, And their ideas about a bear May be colored some by Pittsburg air.” “What’s that you say?” called TEDDY-G, “You seem to know your geography, But let me say right here and now, I’ll teach your Pittsburg people how To dance and sing, to laugh and joke, In mountain air or city smoke, For they must know this very day That Pittsburg too was made for play.”
Copyright, 1907, by Edward Stern & Co., Inc.
“Said TEDDY-B, ‘Pay up the fares, We’ll pass to-morrow as millionaires.’” ]
They took a cab to a big hotel Where things are done both smart and swell; And breakfast over, TEDDY-B
On mischief bent, went out to see What the telegraph and phone could do To get a crowd their tricks to view.
He called up schools, every one in town, And ordered all the children down To the Old Block House at noon to see The Teddy Bears teach history.
Then on the Mayor he played a lark By ordering the police to Schenley Park, To be locked up there till after dark; “For,” said TEDDY-B, “the police you know Might spoil our little Block House show.”
At costume shops each Teddy Bear Bought a lot of Indian things to wear. They planned at the Old Block House to meet At the corner of a near-by street, And from that spot like Indians race And take possession of the place. They did the trick in Wild West style; Their whoops and yells were heard a mile;
But the fight was short; no one to scare; There wasn’t a soul there anywhere. They made the place from roof to floor Like seventeen hundred and sixty-four And put things into shape to fool The boys and girls from every school.
The children came, five thousand strong, A happy, merry, lively throng;