In November of 1902, President Theodore Roosevelt was on a hunting trip in Mississippi. His hunt was going
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that day, and he couldn"t seem to find anything worth of
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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
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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
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, with his back turned on a cute (可爱的) baby bear. Morris Michtom, owner of a Brooklyn toy store, was
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by the cartoon to make a stuffed baby bear. Intending it only as a display, he placed the stuffed bear in his toy store
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, and next to it placed a copy of the cartoon from the newspaper. To Michtom"s surprise, his store was flooded by customers
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to buy. He asked for and received President Roosevelt"s
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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
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the thousands. The money from the sale enabled him, in 1903, to
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the Ideal Toy Company.