
The second bowl was a middle-sized bowl, with a middle-sized wooden spoon in it, and that was the mother bear's bowl. The first bowl was a GREAT BIG BOWL with a GREAT BIG WOODEN SPOON in it, and that was the father bear's bowl. "They can't be very hungry people," thought Goldilocks to herself, "or they would come home to eat their suppers." And she went over to the table just to see whether the bowls were full.

So there she sat, and she rocked and she rocked, and she sat and she sat, until with her rocking and her sitting she sat the bottom right out of it.Īnd still nobody had come, and there stood the bowls of porridge on the table. Then she sat down in the dear little chair, and it was just right, and fitted her as though it had been made for her. Then she sat down in the middle-sized chair, and the cushion was too hard, and it was not comfortable. It seemed as though it would swallow her up. She thought she would sit down and rest until they came, so first she sat down in the GREAT BIG CHAIR, but the cushion was too soft. "And so," thought Goldilocks, "the people must be coming back soon to eat it." And on the table stood three bowls of smoking hot porridge. And one was a middling-sized chair, and it belonged to the mother bear, and one was a dear little chair, and it belonged to the baby bear. One was a GREAT BIG CHAIR, and it belonged to the father bear. She waited awhile and then she knocked again, and as still nobody answered her she pushed the door open and stepped inside. But the three bears had gone out to take a walk in the forest while their supper was cooling, so when Goldilocks knocked at the door no one answered her. There was a GREAT BIG FATHER BEAR, and a middling-sized mother bear, and a dear little baby bear, no bigger than Goldilocks herself. Now, though Goldilocks did not know it, this house belonged to three bears.

She hoped the good people inside would give her a drink, and let her rest a little while. Presently she came to a little house, standing all alone in the forest, and as she was tired and thirsty she knocked at the door. She went on into the forest, and it was very cool and shady. She wandered on and on, and after a while she came to a forest, where she had never been before. One day Goldilocks went out into the meadows to gather flowers.
