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BAWLY AND ARABELLA CHICK. · Bully and Bawly No-Tail (the Jumping Frogs)

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  Story twenty of Bully and Bolli 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. Bully and Bali No
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  Tail, The Jumping Frogs by Howard R. Garis Bolli and Arabella Chick.
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  One day, Bully No Tail. The frog boy was hopping along through the
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  woods, and he felt so very fine, and it was such a nice
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  day that when he came to a place where some flowers grew up near an
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  old stump, nodding their pretty heads in the wind, the frog boy sang
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  a little song. I love to skip and jump and hop. I love
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  to hear firecrackers pop. I love to play the whole long day. I
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  love to spin my humming top. That's what Bully sang. And if there
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  had been a second, or a third, or a forty eleventh verse,
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  he would have sung that too, as he felt so good. Well after
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  it had sung the one verse, he hopped on some more, and pretty
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  soon he came to the place where the mouse lady lived, whose basket of
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  chips Bully had once picked up when she heard her foot on a thorn.
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  I guess you remember about that story. Ah, how do you do?
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  Bully asked the mouse lady as the frog boy hopped along. Thank you,
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  I'm very well, he answered politely. I hope you are feeling pretty good.
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  Well, she made answer, I might feel better. I have a
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  little touch of cat and mouse trap fever. But I think if I stay
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  in my hole and take plenty of toasted cheese, I'll be better. But
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  here's a nice sugar cookie for you. And with that, the nice mouse
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  lady went to the cupboard, got a cookie and gave it to the frog
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  boy. Bully ate it without getting a single crumb on the floor, which
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  was very good of him, and then saving a piece of the cookie for
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  his brother Bolly. He hopped on after bidding the mouse lady goodbye and hoping
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  that she would soon be better. Along and along hopped Bully, and all
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  of the sudden, the big giant jumped out of the bushes. Oh excuse
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  me, if you please. There's no giant in this story. The giant
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  went back to the circus, but I'll tell you a story about him as
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  soon as I may. As Bully was hopping along all of the sudden.
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  Out from behind a bush there jumped a savage, ugly wolf, and he
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  had gotten out of his circus cage again and was looking around for something to
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  eat. Ahha, at last, I have found something, cried the wolf,
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  as he made a spring for Bully, and he caught the frog boy
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  under his paws and held him down to the earth, just like a cat
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  catches a mouse. Oh, let me go, Please, let me go.
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  You're squeezing the breath out of me, cried poor Bully. Indeed,
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  I will not let you go, replied the wolf. Real unpleasant like I
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  have been looking for something to eat all day, and now that I've found
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  it, I'm not going to let you go. No, indeed, and
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  some horse radish in a bottle. Besides, are you really going to eat
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  me? Asked Bully sorrowfully. I certainly am. You Just watch me.
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  Oh no, I forgot. You can't see me eat you, but you
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  can feel me, which is much the same thing. Then the wolf sharpened
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  his teeth on a sharpening stone, and he got ready to eat up the
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  frog boy. Now Bully didn't want to be eaten, and I don't blame
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  him a bit, do you? He wanted to go play ball and have
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  a lot of fun with his friends, And he was thinking, what a
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  queer world this is, where you can be happy in singing a song and
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  eating a sugar cookie one minute and the next minute be caught by a wolf.
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  But that's the way it generally is. Then, as Bully thought of
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  how good the sugar cookie was, he asked the wolf, will you let
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  me go for a piece of cookie? Mister wolf, let me see the
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  cookie, spoke the savage creature. So Bully reached in his pocket and took
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  out the piece of cookie that he was saving for Bolly. He knew BALI
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  would only be too glad to have the wolf take it if he let his
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  brother Bully go. But would you ever believe it? That unpleasant and most
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  extraordinary wolf animal snatched the cookie from Bully's paw, ate it up with one
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  mouthful and only smiled. Well, now are you gonna let me go?
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  Asked Bully. No, said the wolf. That cookie only made me more
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  hungry. I guess I'll eat you now, and then go look for your
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  brother and eat him too. Oh will no one save me? Cried Bully
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  in despair, And just then he heard a rustling in the bushes. He
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  looked up and there he saw Dotty Trot, the little pony girl. She
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  waved her hoof at Bully, and then the frog Boy knew she would save
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  him if she could, so he thought of a plan. While Dotty,
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  with her new red hair ribbon, tied in a pink bow hidden the bushes
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  where the wolf couldn't see her, and waited. Well, if you're going
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  to eat me, mister wolf, said Bully most politely. After a while,
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  will you grant me one favor before you do? So? What is
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  it? Asked the wolf, still sharpening his teeth. Let me take one
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  last hop before I die, asked Bully. Very well, answered the wolf,
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  One hop and only one. Remember, and don't think you can get
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  away, for I can run faster than you can hop. Bully knew that,
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  but he was thinking of Dotty Trot. So the wolf took his paws
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  off Bully and the frog Boy got ready to take a last big hop.
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  He looked over through the bushes and saw the pony girl, and then he
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  gave a great, big, most tremendous and extraordinarily strenuous jump and landed right
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  on Dotty's back. Here we go, cried the pony girl. Here is
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  where I save Bully, no tail, goodbye, bad mister wolf. And
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  away she trotted as fast as the wind. Here, come back with my
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  supper. Come back with my supper, cried the disappointed wolf, and off
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  he ran after Dotty, who had Bully safely on her back. Faster and
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  faster ran the wolf. But faster and faster ran Dotty, and no wolf
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  could ever catch her no matter how fast he ran. And Dotty galloped and
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  trotted and cantered and went on and on and on, and the wolf came
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  after her, but he kept on, being left farther and farther behind,
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  and at last Dotty was out of the woods and she and Bully were safe,
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  for the wolf didn't dare go any nearer for fear of the circus men
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  would catch him. Oh, thank you so much Dotty for saving me,
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  said Bully. I'll give you this other piece of cookie I was saving for
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  BOLLI he won't mind, so he gave it to Dotty and she liked it
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  very much indeed, and that wolf was so angry and disappointed about not having
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  any supper that he bit his claw nails almost off and went back into the
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  woods and growled and growled and growled all night, worse than a buzzing mosquito.
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  But Bully and Dotty didn't care a bit, and they went on home,
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  and they met Uncle Wiggily Longears, the rabbit gentleman, who bought them
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  an ice cream soda flavored with carrots. Now, in case my little bunny
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  rabbit doesn't bite a hole in the back steps, so the milkman drops a
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  bottle down it when he comes in the morning. I'll tell you in the
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  following story about Grandpa Croaker and Bright Eyes Pig. End of story twenty read
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  by Renee R. Smith, March two thousand, twenty three. The test stip