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BULLY AND BAWLY AT THE CIRCUS · Bully and Bawly No-Tail (the Jumping Frogs)

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  Chapter twenty nine of Bully and Bali No Tale The Jumping Frogs. This is
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  a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more
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  information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox dot org. Bully and Balie No
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  Tale The Jumping Frogs by Howard R. Garis, Chapter twenty nine Bully and
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  Bali at the Circus. Oh, Mama, may we go, exclaimed Bali
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  no tale one day as he came home from school and hopped into the house
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  with such a big hop that he hopped right up into the frog lady's lap.
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  Go where, asked Bali's mother, wondering if the alligator were after her
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  son. Oh, do please let us go, cried Bully, hopping in
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  after his brother. Bully tried to stand on his head, but his foot
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  slipped and he nearly fell into the ink bottle. Please let us go,
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  mother, where where? She asked again, as Bolly hopped out of her
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  lap. Do the circus? Cried Bully, It's coming, exclaimed Bolly.
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  Down in the vacant lots, went on, Bully, Oh, you ought
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  to see the posters, lions and tigers and elephants and men jumping in the
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  air, and horses and and Bolly had to stop for breath then, and
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  so he couldn't say any more. Neither could Bully. Oh, but they
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  were excited. Let me tell you, may we go? They both cried
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  out again. Well i'll see, began their mother slowly. I don't know.
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  Oh, I guess you'd better let them go, spoke up Grandpa Croaker
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  in his deepest rumbling voice. I I think I can spare the time to
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  look after them. I don't really want to go, you know, as
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  I was going to play a game of checkers with Uncle Wiggily long Ears.
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  But I guess I can take the boys to the circus. Ahem, oh
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  goody, cried Bali, jumping up and down. Where are you going,
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  asked their papa, just then, coming in from the wallpaper factory to the
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  circus, said blly, Grandpa Croaker will take us, A hum exclaimed Papa,
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  no tale. I am very busy, but I guess I can spare
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  the time to take you. We won't bother, Grandpa. Oh, it's
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  no bother, none at all, I assure you, quickly, spoke the
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  Grandpa Frog in a thundering rumbling voice. We can both take them. Well,
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  I never heard of such a thing, exclaimed Mama. No tail,
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  anyone would think you two old men frogs wanted to go as much as the
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  boys do. But I guess it will be all right. So Bully and
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  Balie and their papa and their grandpa went to the circus next day. And
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  what do you think, just as they were buying their tickets, if they
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  didn't meet Uncle Wiggily Longears, And he had Sammy and Susie the rabbits with
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  him. And there was Aunt Lettie, the old lady Goat, with the
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  three wibblewobble children, and many other little friends of Bully and Balie. Well
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  that was a fine circus. There were lots of tents with flags on,
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  and outside were men selling pink lemonade and peanuts for the elephant and toy balloons,
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  only those weren't for the elephants, you know. And there were men
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  shouting and lots of excitement. And there was a side show with pictures outside
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  the tent of a man swallowing swords by the dozen, and also knives and
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  forks, and another picture of a lady wrapping a fat snake around her neck
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  because she was cold. I guess, And then you could hear the lions
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  roaring and the elephant's trumpeting, and the band was playing, and the peanut
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  wagons were whistling like tea kettles, and and oh, why if I write
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  any more about that circus, I'll want to take my typewriter and put it
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  away in a dark closet and go to the show myself. But anyhow,
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  it was very fine, and pretty soon Bully and Balie and their Pawpaw and
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  Grandpa were in the tent looking at the animals. They fed the elephant peanuts
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  until they had none for themselves, and they looked at the camel with two
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  humps and at the one with only one hump, because I suppose he didn't
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  have money enough to buy two. And then they went in the tent where
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  the real show was. Well, it went off very fine. The big
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  parade was over, and the men were doing acts on the trapeze, and
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  the trained seals were playing ball with their noses, and the clowns were cutting
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  up funny capers, and all at once a man with a shiny hat on
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  came out in the middle of the ring and said, ladies and gentlemen,
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  permit me to call your attention to our jumping dog Nero. He is the
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  greatest jumping dog in the world, and he will jump over on elephant's back.
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  Well, the people clapped like anything after that, and the clown came
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  out leading a dog. Everybody was all excited, especially when another clown let
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  out a big elephant. Then it was the turn of the dog to jump
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  over the elephant. Well, he tried it, but he didn't go over.
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  The clown petted him and gave him a sweet cracker, and the dog
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  tried it again, but he couldn't do it. Then he tried once more
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  and he fell right down under the elephant, and the elephant lifted Nero up
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  in his trunk and set him gently down on some straw. Then the clown
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  took off his funny pointed hat and said, ladies and gentlemen, I am
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  very sorry, but my poor dog is sick and he can't jump today,
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  and I have nothing else that can jump over the elephant's back. Everyone felt
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  quite disappointed at that, but still they were sorry for the poor dog.
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  The clown led him away and the other clown was leading the elephant off when
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  Bully said to Balie, don't you think we could do that jump. We
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  once did a big jump to get away from the alligator. You know,
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  let's try it, said Balie. Then the people won't be disappointed. Come
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  on, So they slipped from their seats when their papa and grandpa were talking
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  to Uncle Wiggily about the trained seals, and those two frog boys just hopped
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  right into the middle of the circus ring. At first, a monkey policeman
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  was going to put them out, but they made motions that they wanted to
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  jump over the elephant, for they couldn't speak policeman talk. You know.
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  Uh huh, I see what they want, said the kind clown. Well,
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  I don't believe they can do it, but let them try it merely
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  amuse the people. So he made the elephant go back to his place,
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  and everyone became interested in what Bully and Bali were going to do. Are
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  you all ready, asked Bully of his brother. Yes, answered Bali.
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  Then take a long breath and jump as hard as you can, said Bully.
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  So they both took long breaths, crouched down on their hind legs,
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  and then both together simultaneously and most extraordinarily, they jumped. My what a
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  jump it was. Bigger than the time. When they got away from the
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  alligator, right over the elephant's back, they jumped, and they landed on
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  a pile of soft straw, so they weren't hurt a bit. My,
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  you should have heard the people cheer and clap. Good, cried the clown.
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  That was a great jump. Will you stay in the circus with me?
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  I will pay you as much as I pay my dog. Oh no,
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  they must go home, said their papa, as Bully and Bolli went
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  back to their seats. That is, after the circus is over, said
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  mister Nottail. So the frog boys saw the rest of the show, and
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  afterward all their friends told them how brave it was to do what they had
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  done. And for a long time after that, whenever anyone mentioned what good
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  jumpers Bully and ball sammy littletail would say, ah, but you should have
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  seen them in the circus one day. And on the next page, if
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  the lilac bush in our backyard doesn't reach in through the window and take off
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  my typewriter ribbon to wear to Sunday school, I'll tell you about Bully and
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  Balie playing Indian And of Chapter twenty nine read by Aaron Zimmerman