(Back of card)

...The three bears came home very tired and hungry and went to look after their soup. Rough Bruin, the big papa bear, then cried out in a loud, angry voice: "Who has meddled with my soup?"

Mammy Muff, the mama bear, next said, in a loud voice, too, but not so gruffly as Rough Bruin: "Who has meddled with MY soup?"

But when Tiny, the little bear, saw his bowl lying empty on the table he bit his very paws for grief and asked over and over again, with his shrill little voice: "Who has meddled with MY soup and eaten it all up? Who? Who? Who?" ....

Artist: Anonymous 1890