Next morning Mama Bear said: "I must go to town to buy a new sun­bonnet!"  
Sure enough, the sun-bonnet that Mama Bear wore was old and faded.
 
"May I go?" said the first little Bear.
 
"May I go?" said the second little Bear.
 
Then all the little Bears danced up and down and cried: "May I go? May I go?"
 
 Mama Bear boxed their ears right and left, and Papa Bear said:
 
"It is really dreadful for you all to  talk at once. I will go with Mama Bear to select her new bonnet."
 
Red Riding Hood said she would keep house and see that the little Bears stayed in until Papa and Mama Bear came home.
 
Mama and Papa Bear went down the road quite happy, and the little Bears begged Red Riding Hood to tell them a story. So Red Riding Hood began:
 
"Once there was a little bear and he took a little broom and swept the floor."
 
Then Red Riding Hood handed the first little Bear a broom and he swept the floor, and she said again:
 
"There was another lit............