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i6o BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA Ho, shaggy, surly, burly Bear! So pleased you came to-night. Come, dance among the trees with us, 'Twill make a pretty sight. (The Bear starts back and growls.) (Chorus) What! No! You will not join with us? Go, seek your wand'ring wits. This is no place for such as you, We'd scare you into fits. (The Bear rears up and runs this way and that way as they caper around and flash their torches in his face. He grumbles and growls in comical fear, louder and louder. Then, when a chance occurs, he rushes away and disappears.) (Chorus) (Now distant thunder is heard. It can be made by rolling a big bowling-ball in a barrel, or by use of a drum. It comes nearer and louder. . Flashes of lightning (gunpowder) are seen. The Fire-flies dance away and sing:) Oh, hear that funny Thunder Storm, A-bumbling in the sky; He thinks he'll stop our dancing now — Just wait and see him try. (The storm grows fearful; a gun fired with heavy blank charges of powder would help the effect. The Fire-flies think it all up- roariously funny, and simply dance more and more merrily, laughing and singing the Chorus:) Twinkle, twinkle, etc. l[The thunder dies away, defeated.)^