midday
That personage seemed destined for a bear 's dinner that day . Suddenly the bear hesitated . He had reached the remains of the dinner . Part of what Johnny 's mother had provided for the midday repast was bread and butter , plentifully besmeared with honey . If a bear , big or little , has one weakness in this world it is just honey . He will do for honey what a miser will do for gain , what a politician will do for office , what a lover will do for his sweetheart , what some women will do for dress . For that bear to pass that bread and honey was simply an impossibility .