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MRS. NO-TAIL AND NELLIE CHIP-CHIP · Bully and Bawly No-Tail (the Jumping Frogs)

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  Section twenty three of Bully and Balling No Tail The Jumping Frogs. This is
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  a LibriVox recording. A LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more
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  information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox dot org. Bully and Bawling No
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  Tail The Jumping Frogs by Howard R. Gerris, Missus No Tail and Nellie
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  Chipchip, Nellie Chip Chip. The little Sparrow Girl flew along over the trees
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  after school was out, with a box of chocolate under her wing. And
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  under her other wing was a purse with some money in it that rattled like
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  sleigh bells. What are you going to do with that chocolate? Asked Bully
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  in Tale the Frog Boy, as he and his brother, who were hopping
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  to a ball game, happened to see Nellie. Oh, I guess she's
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  going to eat it, said BOLLI. If you want us to help you,
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  we will, won't we, Bully, he added, sure, said
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  Bully hungry like, Oh, indeed, that's very kind of you, boys,
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  replied Nellie politely. But you see, I'm not eating this chocolate.
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  I am selling it for our school. We want to get some nice pictures
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  to put in the rooms. And so I'm trying to help get the money
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  to buy them by selling cakes of chocolate. Huh, that's a good idea,
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  said Bully. Say Nellie, if you go to our house, maybe
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  our mama will buy some chocolate. I'll fly right over there, declared the
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  little sparrow girl. For I want very much to sell my chocolate, and
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  so far very few persons have bought any of me. I guess our mama
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  will, said Bolli. And then, when Nellie had flown on with her
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  chocolate, Bolli winked both his eyes and spoke lustly, say, Bolly,
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  if Mama buys the chocolate from Nellie, I guess she'll give us some.
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  I hope, so replied his brother. And then they went on to the
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  ballgame and had a good time. Well, as I was telling you,
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  Nellie flew over to missus Nottail's house and knocked at the door with her little
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  bill. Don't you want to buy some chocolate so I can make money to
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  get picked for our school, the sparrow girl politely asked. Indeed, I
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  do, replied missus Nottail. I just need some chocolate for a cake I'm
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  baking. And if you would like to come in and help me make the
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  cake and put the chocolate on. I'll give you some and you can take
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  a piece home to Dicky. Indeed, I'll be very glad to help,
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  said Nellie. So she went in the house and missus Nottail paid her for
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  some of the chocolate, and then Nellie took off her hat and put on
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  an apron and she helped make the cake. Oh it was a most delicious
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  one, with about forty eleven layers and chocolate between each one, and then
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  on top. Oh, it just makes me hungry even to typewrite about it.
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  Why the chocolate on top of that cake was as thick as a board,
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  and then on top of the chocolate was sprinkled coconut until you would have
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  thought there had been a snow storm. Talk about a delicious cake. Oh,
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  dear me, Well, I just don't dare write any more about it,
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  for it makes me so impatient. Now said missus Nottail. After the
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  baking was over, we'll just set the cake on the table by the open
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  window to cool Nellie, and we'll wash up the dishes. So they were
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  working away, talking of different things, and Nellie was a great help to
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  Missus Snowtail. Every once in a while, however, Nellie would look over
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  to the cake because it was so nice, she just couldn't keep her eyes
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  away from it. She was just wishing it was time for her to have
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  some to take home, but it wasn't quite yet. Well, all of
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  a sudden, when Nellie looked over for about the twenty two thirteenth time,
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  she saw that all the chocolate was gone from the top of the cake.
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  All the chocolate and the cocoanut was missing. Oh oh, cried the little
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  sparrow girl. What's the matter, asked Missus Nottail. Quickly look exclaimed Nellie,
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  pointing to the cake. Well, of all things, cried Missus Nottail,
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  that chocolate must have disappeared. It must have gone up like a balloon.
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  I will have to buy some more of you and put that on.
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  Then she went over and looked at the cake, and she wondered at the
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  queer scratches in the top, just as if a cat had clawed off the
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  chocolate. But there were no cats around. So Missus Notail and Nellie put
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  more chocolate and coconut on the cake, and they went on washing up the
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  dishes and pretty soon, not so very long. In a while, Nellie
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  looked at the cake again, and would you believe me, the chocolate was
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  all off once more. This is very strange, said missus Notail. That
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  must be queer chocolate to disappear that way. Perhaps a fairy is taking it.
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  Maybe Bully and Bolly are doing it for a joke, said Nellie.
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  So she and missus Nottail looked from the window, but they could see no
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  one, not even a fairy. And anyhow, Missus Nottail knew the boys
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  wouldn't be so impolite as to do such a thing. It is very strange,
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  said the frog boy's mamma. But we will put the chocolate and cocoanut
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  on once more, and then we'll watch to see who takes it. So
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  they did, making a cake even better than before, oh, with such
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  thick chocolate and cocoanut on. And then they hid down behind the stove and
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  watched the window. Pretty soon a big shaggy paw with long sharp claws on
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  it was put in the open window, and the paw went right on top
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  of the cake and scraped off some of the chocolate and cocoanut. Aw.
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  Yum, yum, that is most delicious, exclaimed a crumbling, grumbling voice,
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  and the paw, all covered with the cake chocolate, just as a
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  lollipop stick is covered with candy, went out of the window, and the
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  paw was all cleaned off somehow. When it came back again, more chocolate
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  was then scraped off by those sharp claws. Oh this is simply crumptious,
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  went on the voice, as the paw was pulled back. Then a third
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  time it came and scraped off what was left of the chocolate and coconut.
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  Oh how perfectly delightful and proper this sweet stuff is, cried a voice.
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  I wish there was more than a great, big, shaggy, ugly bear,
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  the same one that once chased Anny Goat stuck his head in the window.
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  Oh did you scrape the chocolate off my cake? Asked missus Powtail.
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  Hi did, the bear said, have you any more? No? Indeed,
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  she answered, But you are a bull, bad creature, and if
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  you don't get away from here, I'll have you arrested. I am not
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  a bit afraid, answered the pair impolitely. And as there is no more
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  chocolate, I'll take the cake. Well, he was just reaching for it
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  with his sharp Clowe Paws, and Missus No Tail and Nellie were very much
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  frightened, fearing the beast would get them. But just then a man's voice
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  cried out, Aha, you bad animal. So I've caught you, have
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  I and you are up to your tricks as usual. Now you come with
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  me. And who should appear but the man from the animal park where the
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  bear once lived, and he had a whip and a rope, and he
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  tied the rope around the bear's neck and whipped him for being so bad,
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  and took him back to his cage. And Missus No Tail and Nellie were
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  very glad, and I guess you'd be also, eh. There was some
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  chocolate left and some cocoanut, and soon a cake was even better than before,
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  and Nellie had sold all her chocolate to Missus No Tail and she could
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  buy lots of pictures for the school. And Nellie took home a big piece
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  of the cake for Dickie, her brother, and of course some for herself.
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  So it all came out right after all, and that bear was very
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  sorry for what he did. Now in the story after this one, if
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  the fish were going to have for supper, doesn't swim away with my new
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  soft hat and get it all wet. I'll tell you about buwling hotail and
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  Alice wibblewobble, and of Section twenty three