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HOW BAWLY HELPED HIS TEACHER · Bully and Bawly No-Tail (the Jumping Frogs)

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  Section twenty seven of Bully and Ballly 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 or read by Tom Merritt Bully
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  and Bally No Tale the Jumping Frogs by Howard R. Garris. How Bally
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  helped his teacher. It was quite warm in the schoolroom one day, and
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  the teacher of the animal children, who was a nice young lady, Robin,
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  had all the windows open, but even then it was still too warm
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  in the peoples, including Bully and Bally no Tail, the frog boys,
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  and Lulu and Alice and Jimmy Wibblewobble the ducks weren't doing much. Every now
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  and then they would look out of the window toward the green fields and the
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  cool pleasant woods where the yellow and purple violets were growing, and they wished
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  they were out there instead of in school. My it's hot, whispered Bully
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  to Bally, And of course it was wrong to whisper in school, but
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  perhaps he didn't think. Yes, I wish we could go swimming, answered
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  Balie, and the teacher heard the frog brothers talking together. Oh, Bully
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  and Bally, she said, as she turned around from the blackboard where she
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  was drawing a picture of a house so the children could better learn how to
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  spell it. I am sorry to hear you whispering. You will both have
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  to stay in after school. Well, of course Bully and Bally didn't like
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  that, but when you do wrong, you have to suffer for it.
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  And when the other animal boys and girls ran out after school to play marbles
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  and baseball and skip rope and jump hopscotch and other games, the frog boys
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  had to stay in. They sat in the quiet schoolroom, and the Robin
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  teacher did some writing in her books, and Bully looked out of the window
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  over at the baseball game. And Bully looked out of the window over toward
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  the swimming pond, and the teacher looked out of the window at the cool
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  woods where those queer flowered Jack in the pulpits girl, and she too wished
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  she was out there instead of in the schoolroom. Well, if you two
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  boys are sorry you whispered and promised that you won't do it again, you
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  may go, said the teacher after a while, when she had looked out
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  of the window once more. You know, it isn't really wicked to whisper
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  in school, only it makes you forget to study, and sometimes it makes
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  other children forget to study, and that's where the wrong part comes in.
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  I'm sorry, teacher said Bully. You may go, said the young Robin
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  lady with a smile. How about you, Bali, I'm not, he
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  exclaimed, real cross like, and I'll whisper again. For all the while,
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  Bali had been thinking how mean the teacher was to keep him in when
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  he wanted to go out and play ball. The Robin lady teacher looked very
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  much surprised at the frog boy, but she only said very well, Bali,
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  then you can't go. So Bully hurried out, and Bali and the
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  teacher stayed in. Bali kept feeling worse and worse, and he began to
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  wish that he had said he was sorry. He looked at the teacher and
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  he saw that she was gazing out of the window again toward the woods,
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  where there were little white flowers like stars growing by the cool green ferns.
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  And Bali noticed how tired the teacher looked, and as he watched, he
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  was sure he saw a tear in each of her bright eyes, and finally
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  she turned to him and said, it is so nice out of doors,
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  Bali, that I can't keep you here any longer, no matter whether you
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  are sorry or not. But I hope you'll be sorry tomorrow and won't whisper
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  again, for it helps me when boys and girls don't whisper. Run out
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  now and have a good time. I wish I could go, but I
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  have some work to do. And then with her wing, she patted Bully
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  on his little green head and opened the door for him. Bali felt rather
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  queer as he hopped out, and he didn't feel like playing ball after all.
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  Instead, he hopped off to the woods and sat down under a big
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  jack in the pulpit to think. And he thought of how his teacher couldn't
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  live in the nice, green country as he did, for she had to
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  stay in a boarding house in the city to be near her school, and
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  she couldn't see the flowers growing in the woods as often as could Bally,
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  for she nearly always had to stay in after school to write in the report
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  books. I I wish I hadn't whispered, Bally said to himself. I
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  I'm going to help teach her. After this, I'll tell her I'm sorry,
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  and I guess I'll bring her some flowers for a desk. Every One
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  wondered what made Bally so quiet that evening at home he studied his lessons,
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  and he didn't want to go out and play ball with Bully. I hope
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  he isn't going to be sick, said his mamma, anxious like Oh,
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  I guess he got a touch of water lily fever, said Grandpa Croaker.
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  A few days of swimming will make him all right again. Bally got up
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  very early the next morning, and without telling anyone where he was going,
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  he hopped over to the woods and gathered a lot of flowers. Oh,
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  such a quantity as he picked. There were purple violets, and yellow ones,
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  and white ones, and some wild purple asters, and some blue fringed
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  gentian, and some lovely light purple wild geraniums, and several jacks in the
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  pulpit, and many other kinds of flowers. And he made them into a
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  nice bouquet with some ferns on the outside. Then, just as he was
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  hopping to school, what should happen but that a great big alligator jumped out
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  of the bushes at him. Ha, what are you doing in my woods,
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  asked the alligator crossly. If if you please, I'm getting some flowers
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  for my teacher because I whispered, said Bally. Oh. In that case,
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  it's all right, said the alligator, smacking his jaws. I like
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  school teachers. Give her my regards, and would you believe it? The
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  savage creature crawled off, taking his double jointed tail with him, and didn't
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  hurt Bully a bit. The flowers made the alligator feel kind and happy.
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  Well, Ballie got to school all right before any of the other children did,
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  and he put the flowers on teacher's desk and he wrote a little note
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  saying, dear teacher, I'm sorry I whispered, but I'm going to help
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  you to day and not talk. And Balie didn't. It was quite hard
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  in school that day, but at last it was over, and just when
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  the children were going home, the robin lady said, boys and girls,
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  you have all helped me very much to day by being good, and I
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  thank you. And something else helped me. It was these flowers that BALLI
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  brought me. But they remind me of the woods where I used to play
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  when I was a little girl. And then she mouth the flowers, and
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  Bali saw something like two drops of water fall from the teacher's right eye into
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  one of the jacks in the pulpit. I wonder if it was water.
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  And then school was over, and all the children ran out to play,
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  and Bali thought he never had had so much fun in all his life as
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  when he and Bully and some of the others had a ball game. And
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  Bali knocked a fine home run. Now in case the cuckoo clock doesn't fall
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  down off the wall, and splattered the rice pudding all over the parlor carpet.
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  I'll tell you in the story after this one about Bully and Sammy littletail.
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  End of section seventeen.