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BULLY NO-TAIL AND KITTIE KAT · Bully and Bawly No-Tail (the Jumping Frogs)

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  Section twenty six of Bully and Bully No Tail 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. Read by Tom Merritt,
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  Bully and Bully No Tail The Jumping Frogs by Howard R. Garris,
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  bullyno Tail and Kitticat Bully, What are you doing? The frog Boy's mother
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  called to him one day as she heard him making a funny noise. Oh,
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  mother, I am just counting to see how many marbles I have?
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  He answered, Well, would you mind going to the store for me,
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  asked missus nottail. I was going to make a cake, but I find
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  I have no cocoanut put on top. Oh, indeed, I'll go for
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  you, mother right away, Ay, cried Bully quickly, for he was
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  very fond of coconut cake. But I guess he would have gone to the
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  store anyhow, even if his mama had only wanted vinegar or lemons or yeast
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  cake. So off he started whistling a little tune about a fuzzy wuzzy pussy
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  cat who drank a lot of milk. And had a crinkly Sunday dress made
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  out of yellow silk. Well, I feel better after that, exclaimed Bully
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  as he hopped along, sailing high in the air above the clouds. Oh,
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  there I go again. I was thinking of Dicky Chip Chip the sparrow.
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  No. Bully hopped along on the ground, and pretty soon he came
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  to the store and bought the coconut for the cake. He was hopping home,
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  hoping his mama would give him and his brother Ballly some of the cake
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  when it was baked. When just as he came near a pond of water,
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  he heard someone crying. Oh, such a sad, pitiful cry as
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  it was, And at first Bully thought it might be some bad wolf or
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  fox or owl crying because it hadn't had any dinner and didn't see anything to
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  catch to eat for supper. I must look out that they don't catch me,
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  thought Bully, and he took tight hold of the coconut and peeked through
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  the bushes. And what did he see but poor kitty cat. You remember
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  her, I dare say she was a sister of Joey and Tommy Cat.
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  There was Kitty Cat crying as if her heart would break, and right in
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  front of her was a savage fox, wiggling his bushy tail to and fro
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  and snapping his cruel jaws and sharp teeth. Now I've caught you, cried
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  the fox. I've been waiting a good while, but I have you now,
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  Yes, I I guess you have, said poor kitty, for the
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  fox had hold of the handle of a little basket that Kitty was carrying and
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  wouldn't let go. In the basket was a nice corn mule pie that Kitty
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  was taking to grandfather Goosey Gander when fox caught her. Will you please let
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  me go? Begged poor kitty cat. No, replied the bad fox.
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  I'm going to eat you up all up. Well. Kitty cried harder than
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  ever at that, but she still kept hold of the basket with the corn
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  mule pie in it, and the fox also had hold of it. And
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  Bully was hiding behind the bushes where neither of them could see him, hiding
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  and waiting. Oh, I must save Kitty from that fox, he thought,
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  How can I do it? So Bully thought and thought and thought of
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  a plan. Then he leaned forward and whispered in Kitty's ear so low that
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  the fox couldn't hear him. Let go of the basket, Kitty, he
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  told her, and then give a big jump and run up a tree.
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  Well, Kitty was quite surprised to hear Bully whispering out of the bushes to
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  her, for she didn't know that he was around, but she did as
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  he told her to. She suddenly let go of the basket handle, and
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  the fox was so surprised that he nearly fell over sideways. And before he
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  could straighten himself up, Kitty Kat jumped back and up a tree. She
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  scrambled before you could shake a stick at her, even if you wanted to.
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  You see, she never thought of going up a tree until Bully told
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  her to. Here you come back, cried the fox, real surprised.
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  Like tell him you are not going to, whispered Bully. And that's what
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  Kitty called to the fox from up in the tree. For you see,
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  he couldn't climb up to her, and he still had hold of her basket.
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  If you don't come down, I'll throw this basket of yours in the
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  water, threatened the bad fox, gnashing his teeth. Oh I don't want
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  him to do that, said Kitty. Never mind, Perhaps he won't,
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  suggested Bully. Wait and see, are you coming down and let me eat
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  you? Asked the fox of the little kitten girl, For the savage animal
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  did not yet know that Bully was hiding. There. Are you coming down?
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  I ask you? No, indeed, exclaimed kitty. Then here goes
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  the basket, cried the fox, And just to be mean, he threw
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  the nice basket containing the corn mual pudding, I mean pie into the pond
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  of water. Oh oh, oh, dear, cried Kitty Kat. What
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  will grandfather goosey gander do. Now, never mind, I'll get it for
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  you, as I don't mind water in the least, spoke Bully bravely,
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  so he started to hop out to jump into the water to save the kiddy
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  girl's basket, for he knew the fox wouldn't dare go in the pond after
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  him, as the fox doesn't like to wet his feet and catch cold.
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  Well, Bully was just about to hop into the pond when he happened to
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  think of the package of cocoanut his mamma had sent him to get at the
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  store. Oh dear, I never can get that wet in the water,
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  or it will be spoiled. He thought, what can I do if I
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  leave it on the shore here while I go after Kitty's basket, the fox
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  will eat it and we'll have no cake. I guess I'm in trouble all
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  right, for I must get the basket. Well, he didn't know what
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  to do, and the fox was just sneaking up to eat him, when
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  Kittycat cried out, Oh, be careful, Bully, jump jump into the
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  water so the fox can't get you. What about the coconut, asked Bully,
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  here, give it to me. I'll hold it, said Kitty,
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  and she reached down with her sharp claws and hooked them into the pink string
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  around the package of coconut and pulled it up on the tree branch where she
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  sat. And then the fox couldn't get it, and oh how disappointed he
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  was, and how he did gnash his teeth, And then before he could
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  grab Bully and eat him up, the frog boy leaped into the pond and
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  swam out and got Kitty's basket and the corn mule pie before it sank.
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  And then Bully swam to a floating log and crawled out on it with the
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  basket, which wasn't harmed in the least, nor was the pie either.
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  The fox sat upon the shore of the pond, and first he looked at
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  Bully and wished he could eat him. And then he looked at Kitty,
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  and he wished he could eat her. And then he looked at the cocoanut
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  which Kitty held in her claws, and he couldn't eat that, and he
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  couldn't eat the cornmeal pie. In fact, he had nothing to eat.
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  Then, all of a sudden along came Perceval, the kind old circus dog,
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  and he barked at the fox and nipped his tail, and the fox
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  ran away, and Kitty and Bully were then safe. Bully came off the
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  log, and Kitty came down out of the tree, and they both went
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  on home, after thanking Perceval most kindly. Now, in case my little
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  girl's tricycle doesn't roll down hill and bunk into the peanut man and make him
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  spill his ice cream, I'll tell you next about Bally helping his teacher.
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  End of section twenty six