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“Louder! Louder!” Buck yelled to the cubs.
“Rooooar! Roooooooooar!” they yelled together, so loud that the ice seemed to shake below Rootsi’s legs. When Buck spotted Rootsi the bears stopped roaring.
“Young Rootsi,” Buck said, “have you learned how to roar like the others?”
“I’ve practiced,” Rootsi answered.
“Show us,” the cubs said.
So Rootsi leaned his head back and filled his lungs with cold air.
Rootsi’s roar went “Toooot! Tooooooooot!”
Buck and the bears erupted in laughter. They laughed so loud that Rootsi couldn’t hear the flapping of the birds’ wings or the soft pattering of the fox’s footsteps or the sliding of the walrus’ fat belly on the white snow. But Rootsi could see the other bears’ stunned stares as they stopped laughing and gazed at all the animals that gathered behind him.
“Let’s scare ‘em!” the bears yelled.
“Roar!” one bear yelled loudly.
“Rooooar!” another yelled even louder.
And then Buck yelled “Rooooooooar!” as loud as he could, the loudest roar Rootsi had ever heard, but none of the animals ran away in fear.
“You called for us?” the owl asked Rootsi.
Rootsi turned and saw the owls and the geese, the auks and the puffers.
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