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GRANDPA CROAKER AND UNCLE WIGGILY · Bully and Bawly No-Tail (the Jumping Frogs)

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  Chapter seventeen of Bully and Balli No Tail The Jumping Frogs. This is a
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  LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information
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  or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox dot org. Bully and Bollino Tail the
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  Jumping Frogs by Howard R. Gerris, Grandpa Croaker and Uncle Wiggily. After
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  the trick which Sammy Littletail the rabbit boy played on the alligator, making him
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  believe a fire engine was after him, it was some time before Bully or
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  Balli No Tail the Frogs went near that pond again where the savage creature with
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  a long tail lived after he had escaped from the circus. Because it isn't
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  safe to go near that water, said Bali No indeed, agreed his brother.
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  Some day we'll get a pump and pump all the water out of the
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  pond, and that will make that alligator go away. Well, it was
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  about a week after this that Grandpa Croaker, the old gentleman frog, put
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  on his best dress. Oh dear me, just listen to that, would
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  you. I mean, he put on his best suit and started out,
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  taking his gold headed cane with him. Where are you going, asked missus
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  Nottail. Oh, I think I'll go over and play a game of checkers
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  with Uncle Wiggily. Longears, replied the gentleman Frog. The last time we
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  played he won, but I think I can win this time. Well,
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  whatever you do, Grandpa, spoke Bully. Please don't go past the pond
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  where the bad alligator is. No, indeed, he might bite you,
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  said Bolly, and their grandpa promised that he would be careful. Well he
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  went along through the woods, Grandpa Croaker did, and pretty soon after a
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  while, not so very long, he came to where Uncle Wiggily lived with
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  Sammy and Susy Littletail, and there Papa and Mamma and miss Jane Fuzzy Wuzzy
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  the muskrat nurse. But to day only Uncle Wiggily was home alone, for
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  everyone else had gone to the circus. So the old gentleman Goat, I
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  I mean Frog, and the old gentleman Rabbit sat down and played a game
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  of checkers. After they had played one game, they played another and another
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  still for Uncle Wiggily won the first game and Grandpa Croaker won the second,
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  and they wanted to see who would win the third. Well, they were
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  playing away, moving the red and black round checkers back and forth on the
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  red and black checkerboard. And they were talking about the weather and whether there'd
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  be any more rain and all things like that, when all of a sudden,
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  Uncle Wiggily heard a noise at the window. Hello, what's that?
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  He cried, looking up, It sounded like someone breaking the glass, answered
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  Grandpa Croaker. I hope it wasn't Bolly and Bully playing ball. Then he
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  looked up and he saw the same thing that Uncle Wiggily saw. And the
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  funny part of it was that Uncle Wiggily saw the same thing Grandpa Croaker saw.
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  And what do you think that was? Why? It was that savage
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  skillery scalery alligator chap who had poked his ugly nose right through the window,
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  breaking the glass. Ha, what do you want here? Cried Uncle Wiggily
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  as he made his ears wave back and forth like palm leave fans, and
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  twinkled his nose like two stars on a frosty night. Yes, get away
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  from here, if you please, said Grandpa Croaker in his deepest, hoarsest,
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  rumbling, grumbling thunder voice. Get away. We want to play checkers.
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  But he couldn't scare the alligator that way, And the first thing he
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  and Uncle Wiggily knew, that savage creature poked his nose still farther into the
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  room. Oh ho, the alligator cried, checkers, Eh, now do
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  you know I am very fond of checkers. And with that, what did
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  he do but put out his long tongue, and with one sweep he licked
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  up the red checkers and the black checkers, and the red and black squared
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  checkerboard all at one swallow and down his throat it went like a sled going
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  downhill. Ah ha, exclaimed the alligator. Those were very fine checkers.
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  I think I won that game, he said, smiling a very big smile.
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  Yes, I guess you did, said Uncle Wiggily sadly, as he
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  looked for his cornstock crutch. When he had it, he was just going
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  to hop away, and Grandpa Croaker was going with him, for they were
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  afraid to stay there any more, when the alligator suddenly cried, where are
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  you going away? Said Uncle Wiggily. Far far away, said Grandpa Croaker,
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  for it made him sad to think of all the nice red and black
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  checkers and the board also being eaten up. Oh, now I think you're
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  going to st day right here, snapped the alligator. You'll stay here,
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  and as soon as I feel hungry again, I'll eat you. And with
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  that, the savage creature with the double jointed tail put out his claws,
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  and in one claw he grabbed Uncle Wiggily, and in the other he caught
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  Grandpa Croaker, and there he had them both. Now, it so happened
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  that a little while before this, Bully and Bolly no Tail, the frog
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  boys, had started out for a walk in the woods. Dear me,
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  said Bully, after a while, do you know, I'm afraid that something
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  has happened to Grandpa Croaker. What makes you think, so, asked his
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  brother, because I think he went past the pond where the alligator was,
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  and that the bad creature got him. Oh, I hope not, replied
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  Bolly. Let's walk along and see. So they walked past the pond,
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  and they saw that it was all calm and peaceful, and they knew the
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  alligator wasn't in it. So they kept on to Uncle Wiggily's house, thinking
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  they would walk home with Grandpa Croaker. And when they came to where the
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  old gentleman Rabbit lived, they saw the alligator standing on his tail outside with
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  his head in through the window. I knew it, cried Bully. I
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  knew that alligator would be up to some tricks. Oh, perhaps he's already
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  eaten Grandpa Croaker and Uncle Wiggily. Just then they heard both the old animal
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  gentlemen squealing inside the house, for the alligator was squeezing them. They're alive,
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  They're still alive, cried Bolly. We must save them, how,
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  asked Bully. Let's build a fire under the alligator's tail, suggested Bolly.
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  He can't see us, for his head is inside the room. So what
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  did those two brave frog boys do but make a fire of leaves under the
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  alligator's long tail. And he was so surprised at feeling the heat that he
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  turned suddenly around, dropped Uncle Wiggily and Grandpa Croaker on the tablecloth, and
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  then pulling his head out of the window, he turned it over toward the
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  fire, and he cried, great big alligator tears on the flames and put
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  them out. Oh what a lot of big tears, he cried. Then
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  he tried to catch Bully and Bolly, but the frog boys hopped away,
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  and the alligator ran after them. Just then the man from the circus came
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  with a long rope and caught the savage beast and put him back in the
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  cage and made him go to sleep after he put some vasoline on his burns.
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  So that's how Bully and Bolly saved Uncle Wiggily and Grandpa Croaker by building
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  a fire under the alligator's long tail. And in case someone sends me a
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  nice ring for my finger or thumb with a big orange in it instead of
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  a diamond, I'll tell you next about Missus nottail and Missus Longtail and chapter
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  seventeen recorded by Olivia