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BULLY AND ALICE WIBBLEWOBBLE · Bully and Bawly No-Tail (the Jumping Frogs)

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  Section twenty four of Bully and Bolly No Tail The Jumping Frogs. This is
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  a LibriVox recording. All Liberal Box recordings are in the public domain. For
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  Leaf, Bully and Bolly No Tail The Jumping Frogs by Howard R. Garis,
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  Bully and Alice Wibblewobble. Bully said the frog boys Mamma to him one
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  Saturday morning, when there wasn't any school. I wish you would go on
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  an errand for me, of course several mother, he said, do you
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  want me to go to the store for some lemons or some sugar? Neither
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  one. Bully, I wish you'd go to missus Wibblewobble's house and tell the
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  nice stuck lady I can't come over to day to help pursue carpet tracks and
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  piece of the pit quilt. I have to put away the winter flannels so
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  the moths won't get in them. And then too, it is so rainy
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  and foggy that we couldn't see to sue carpet tracks pretty well. Tell her
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  I'll be over the first pleasant day very well, answered Bully. And may
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  I stay awhile and play with Jimmie Wibblewobble. You may, said his mother,
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  and off Bully hopped all alone, for his brother Bolly had gone fishing.
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  It was a very unpleasant day for any one except ducks of frogs,
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  for sometimes it rained, and when it wasn't rainy, it was misty and
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  moisty and foggy, and it was wept all over. The water dripped down
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  off the trees and bushes, and even the ponds and little brooks were wetter
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  than usual, for the rain rained into them and splitshed and splashed. But
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  Bully didn't mind, not in the least. Away he hopped in his rubber
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  suit. That water couldn't hurt, and he felt very fine. Soon he
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  was at Missus Wibblewobble's house, and he delivered the message his mother had given
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  him. And now I'll go play with Jimmie, said Bully. Where is
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  he? And where are Lulu and Alice Missus Wibblewobble. Oh, the girls
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  went over to see grandfather Goosey Gander replied their mamma. As for Jimmie,
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  you'll find him out somewhere on the pond, but carefully don't get lost,
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  for the fog is very thick to day, I should think it was,
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  replied Bully as he hopped away. It's almost as thick as molasses. Well,
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  pretty soon he came to the edge of the pond, and in he
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  plumped and began swimming about. Jimmy, Hey, Jimmy, where are you?
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  Jimmy? He called over here making a water wheel, answered the boy
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  duck. And though the frog Chack couldn't see him, he could tell by
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  Jimmy's voice where he was, and soon he had hopped to the white place.
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  Well, Bully and Jimmy had a fine time making the water wheel that
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  when splash splashed around in the water. And when they became tired of playing
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  that, they played water tack with the water spiders. And then they played
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  hop, skip and jump, at which game Bully was very good. Now
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  let's go up to the house, proposed Jimmy, and I'm sure mother will
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  give us some cornmeal sandwiches with jam and bread and butter. On off,
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  they went through the fog, and it was now so thick that they couldn't
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  see their way, and by mistake they went to the barn instead of the
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  house. I don't know what they would have done. Only just then along
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  came Old Perceval, the circus dog, and he could smell his way through
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  the misty fog up to the house. Maybe he could smell the sandwiches with
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  jam and bread and butter on. I don't know, But anyhow, Missus
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  Wibblewobble gave him one when she made some for Bully and Jimmie. Well,
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  now I'm coming to the Alice part of the story. As Jimmie and Bully
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  were eating the sandwiches on the back porch, not minding the rain in the
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  least, all at once, Lulu Wibblewobble came waddling along. As soon as
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  she got to the steps, she called out, Oh is Alice home?
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  Yet Alice home, exclaimed Missus Wibblewobble. Why didn't she come from grandfather Goosey
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  Gander's house with you? No, she started on ahead some time ago,
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  said Lulu. She said she wanted to put on her new hair ribbon for
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  dinner. She ought to have been here some time ago. Are you sure
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  she isn't here? No, she isn't, answered Jimmie. She must be
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  lost in the fog. Oh, dear, that's exactly what has happened,
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  cried the mamma duck. Oh, this dreadful fog? What shall I do?
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  Don't worry, missus Wibblewobble, spoke Bully, Jimmy and I will go
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  and hunt her. We can find her in the fog. Oh, you
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  may get lost yourselves, said the duck lady. It's bad enough as it
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  is, but that would be dreadful. Oh what shall I do? I'll
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  tell you, said Lulu. We'll all hunt for her, And so that
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  we will not become lost in the fog, we'll tie several strings to our
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  house, and then each of us will keep hold of one string, and
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  when we go off in the fog, we can follow the string back again
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  and we won't get lost. That's a good idea, cried Bully, and
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  they all thought it was. So they each tried a long string to the
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  front porch trail, and keeping hold of the other end, started out in
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  the fog. Missus Wibblewobble, Jimmy, Bully and Lulu. Oft into the
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  fog they went, and the white mist was not thicker than ever, thicker
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  than my lass. Sa I guess, missus Wibblewobble, look one way and
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  Jimmie another, and Lulu another, and Bully still another, and for a
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  long time neither one of them could find Alice. I'm going to call out
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  loud and perhaps she'll hear me, said Bully. She probably wandered off on
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  the wrong path coming from grandfather Goosey Gander's house, so he cried as loudly
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  as he could. Alice, Alice, where are you? Alice? Now
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  here? I am the duck girl suddenly cried, though Bully couldn't see her
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  on account of the fog. Oh, I'm so glad he came to find
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  me, for I've been lost a long time. Walk right over this way,
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  called Bully, and I'll take you home by the string. Come over
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  here, Yes, come over here, called another voice, and Bully looked,
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  and what should re see for a savage alligator hiding the fog with his
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  mouth wide open. The alligator hoped Alice would, by mistake, walked right
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  into his mouth so he could eat her, and he kept calling right after
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  Bully, and poor Alice got so confused with the two of them shouting that
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  she didn't know what to do. Bully was afraid the alligator would get her,
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  so what did he do but take up a big stone, and,
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  hiding in the fog, he threw the rock into the alligator's mouth. There
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  chew on that called Bully, and the alligator was so angry that he crawled
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  right away, taking his scaly, double jointed tale with him. Then Bully
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  called again, and this time Alice found where he was in the fog,
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  and she waddled up to him, and she wasn't lost any more, and
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  Bully took her home by following the string. Then the fog blew away,
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  and they were all happy and had some old jam sandwiches. Now, in
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  case it doesn't rain, and wet my new umbrella so that the pussy cat
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  can go to school and learn how to make a mouse trap. I'll tell
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  you next about Bolly no Tail and Lulu Wibblebobble. End of section twenty four