In November of 1902,President Theodore Roosevelt was on a hunting trip in Mississippi.His hunt was going【B1】that day,and he couldn’t seem to find anything worth of【B2】his rifle.Then,his staff captured a black baby bear for the President to shoot,but he could not.The thought of shooting a bear that was tied to a tree did not seem sporting,so he【B3】the life of the baby bear and set it free
Based on this story,a famous political cartoonist for the Washington Star drew a cartoon,which showed Teddy Roosevelt,rifle【B4】,with his back turned on a cute(可爱的)baby bear.Morris Michtom,owner of a Brooklyn toy store,was【B5】by the cartoon to make a stuffed baby bear.Intending it only as a display,he placed the stuffed bear in his toy store【B6】,and next to it placed a copy of the cartoon from the newspaper.To Michtom’s surprise,his store was flooded by customers【B7】to buy.He asked for and received President Roosevelt’s【B8】to use his name for the hand-sewn bears that he and his wife made,and the ’Teddy Bear’was born!Michtom was soon manufacturing Teddy bear【B9】the thousands.The money from the sale enabled him,in 1903,to【B10】the Ideal Toy Company.