Three girls are dancing on a lily pad. Are these girls very tiny, or is it a very large lily pad? They wear ballerina costumes. One is blue. One is green. One is red.
There is music playing, thin tinkly music like a music box. The girls move gracefully in time with the music.
Suddenly there is a snort and a grunt and the girls scream. They throw up their arms and dance away to the right. From the left comes a gigantic bear reared up on his hind legs, shuffling his feet in time with the music. He is dancing, but the dance is not graceful.
A shot rings out and the bear falls to all fours, growling and snarling. The music box speeds up to double speed. The three ballerinas come spinning and twirling back on the scene. The bear swipes at them with his huge paw again and again, but always misses.
Until he manages to swat the red ballerina and she crumples to the ground. The blue and green ballerinas scream and beat the bear's face with their small fists. The bear swats them both and all three girls are down on the ground, unmoving. The bear's huge muzzle sniffs at the red ballerina. He opens wide his huge jaws and_
You wake up sweating. Is that a sound in the brush? You are nervous and trembling. You do not fall back asleep, but sit there wide awake until dawn.
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