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KatieBear: You take back all of what you said?
BettyBear: It's really 3 chairs and a bench.
Francisco: And two of the chairs are rocking chairs.
Amber: And this time it was only stuff to sit on, no sweater.
Marta Pearl Beary: You're missing the whole point here. Ms. Mary -- who has been disappointingly lacking in the typical female interest in shopping -- has actually been shopping for menagerie furniture twice in two months. And it hasn't been just one piece each time; it was two the first time and four this time. Good heavens! What next?
Amber: I think you probably mean "How many next?"
Marta Pearl Beary: That, too!
Francisco: So let's show everyone the bench and the chair and the two rocking chairs.
BettyBear: It was the place where she bought Joe's sweater, not the place where she found the other chairs.
Bitsy: Can we do the three bears thing again like before?
Amber: That was 2 chairs and no little girl and lots of bears, and you didn't like that.
Bitsy: I promise I'll like it this time. Can we do it?
Francisco: I want to go right to the part where we put the ones of us that look like the right size in the chairs and see if we guessed right.
Bitsy: Can I help guess?
Marta Pearl Beary: Of course. It will take all of us together to figure this out. Four chairs!
Bitsy: KatieBear and Francisco and BettyBear and Marta Pearl Beary are too small. Amber might fit. I might, too, but I want to stay sitting right here with Hightop's chin on the top of my head.
Amber: I think I'm a little small, but I'll try them on. Then we'll know how much bigger the right sitter needs to be. Can somebody give me a boost up? Lacey and Curly Brown, you get off the computer and come here to try on these chairs, too. You can't miss all the fun this time.
KatieBear: Shhhhh. We don't want to wake up Ms. Mary.
I Love L.A.: "L.L." sounds close to "LA-LA" and Los Angeles is sometimes called "La-La Land." I don't think you look like a la-la bear. But you do look like the lucky bear you are.