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BAWLY AND LULU WIBBLEWOBBLE · Bully and Bawly No-Tail (the Jumping Frogs)

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  Section twenty five A Bully and Bolly No Tail The Jumping Frogs. This is
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  Bully and Bolly No Tail The Jumping Frogs by Howard R. Garis Bolli and
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  Lulu Wibblewobble Bolly No Tail. The frog boy was hopping along one day,
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  whistling a little tune about a yellow spotted doggie who found a juicy bone and
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  sold it to a ragman for a penny ice cream cone. After the little
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  frog boy had finished his song, he hopped into a pond of water and
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  swam about, standing on his head and wiggling his toes in the air,
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  just as when the boys go in bathing. Well would you believe it when
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  Bolly bounced up out of the water to catch his breath, which nearly ran
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  away from him down to the five and ten cent store. When Bolly bounced
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  up, I say, who should he see but Lulu Wibblewobble, the duck
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  girl swimming around on the pond. Hello. Lulu called Bolly, Hello,
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  answered Lulu. Come on, Bolly, let's see who can throw a stone
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  the fathest? You or I oh pooh, cried the frog boy, I
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  can of course, you're only a girl. Well would you ever believe it?
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  When Bolly and Lulu were out on the shore of the pond and had
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  thrown their stones, LULUs went ever so much farther than did Bolly's. Oh,
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  she was a good thrower. Lulu was, well, anyhow, I
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  can be to jumping, cried Bolly. Now let's try that game. So
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  they tried that, and of course Bolly wan, being a very good jumper.
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  He jumped over two stones, three sticks, a little black ant and
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  also a big one, a hump of dirt, two flies, and a
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  grain of sand. And as for Lulu, she only jumped over a brown
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  leaf, a bit of straw, part of a stone, and a little
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  fuzzy bug. Now we're even, said Bolly, hoofed good nature again.
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  Let's go for a walk to the woods and you'll get some wild flowers and
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  maybe something will happen. Who knows? Who knows, agreed Lulu. So
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  off they started together, talking about the weather and ice cream cones and fourth
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  of July and all things like that, for it was Saturday, you see,
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  and there was no school. Well, pretty soon, in a little
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  while, not so very long, as Bali was hopping and Lulu was wobbling
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  along, they heard a noise in the bushes. Now, of course,
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  when you're in the woods, there is always likely to be a noise in
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  the bushes. Sometimes it's made by a fairy, and sometimes by a giant,
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  and sometimes by a squirrel or a rabbit, or a doggie or a
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  kitty, and sometimes only by the wind blowing in the treetops. And you
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  can never tell what makes the noise until you look. So Bali and Lulu
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  look to see what made the noise in the bushes. Maybe it's a giant,
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  exclaimed Lulu. Maybe it's a fairy, said Bolly. And they looked
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  and looked, and pretty soon, in a jiffy, out came a man,
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  just a plain ordinary man. Oh me, cried Bolly. Oh my,
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  exclaimed Lulu. Then they both started to run away, for they were
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  afraid they might be hurt. But the man saw them going off, and
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  he called after them, Oh, pray, don't be frightened, little ones.
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  I wouldn't hurt you. For the world I was just looking for a
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  frog and a duck, and here you are. Are Are you going to
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  eat us? Asked Bolly, blinking his eyes. No indeed, replied the
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  man. Kindly. Are you going to carry us away in a bag?
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  Asked Lulu, wiggling her feet. Oh, never, never, never,
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  cried the man quickly. I will put you in my pockets if you will
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  let me, and I will do a funny trick with you. A trick,
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  asked Bolly, for he was very fond of them. What kind a
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  good trick? Replied the man. You see, I am a magician in
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  a show. That is, I do all sorts of funny tricks, such
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  as making a rabbit come out of a hat, or shutting a pig up
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  in a box and changing it into a bird, and making a boy or
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  girl disappear. I also do tricks with ducks and frogs. But the other
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  day the pet frog and duck which I have got sick, and I can't
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  do any more tricks with him until they are better. But if you would
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  come with me, I could do some tricks with you in the show,
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  and I wouldn't hurt you up bit, and I'd give you each ten cents
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  and you could have a nice time. Will you come with me? I
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  took a walk out in the woods especially to day, hoping I could find
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  a new duck of frog to use in my tricks. Well, Lulu and
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  Bali thought about it, and as the man looked very kind, they decided
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  to go with him. So he put Lulu in one of his big pockets
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  and Bolly in the other, and off he started through the woods, and
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  pretty soon he came to the place where he did the tricks. It was
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  a big building and there was a whole crowd of people there waiting for the
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  magician, men and women and boys and girls. Now we afraid, Bolly
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  and Lulu, said the man kindly, for he could talk duck and frog
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  language. No one will hurt you. So he put Bolli and Lulu down
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  on a soft table where the people couldn't see them. And then that man
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  did the most surprising and extraordinary tricks. He made fire come out of a
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  pair of water. And he opened a box and there was a thing in
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  it. And he opened it again and there was a rabbit in it.
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  Then he took a man's hat and said, now there is nothing in his
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  hat. But in a moment I Am going to make a little frog come
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  in it. Watch me closely. Well, of course, the people hardly
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  believed him. But what do you think that man did. Why he took
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  the hat and turned around, and when nobody was looking, he slipped Bolly
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  off from the table and put him inside it, inside the hat, I
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  mean. And then the magician said, presto change, oh, froggy,
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  froggy, come into the hat. Then he put his hand in and lifted
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  out Bolly, made a polite little bow, and the frog was in a
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  bit afraid. And my, how those people did clap their hands and stamped
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  their feet. Now, if some lady will lend me her handbag, I'll
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  make a duck come in it, said the magician. So a lady in
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  the audience gave him her handbag. And after the magician had taken out ten
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  handkerchiefs and a purse with no money in it, and a looking glass,
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  and some feathers all done up in a buff ball, and some peppermint candies,
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  and two postage stamps, and some chewing gum and five keys, why
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  he went back on the stage, and as quick as a wink, when
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  no one was looking, with his back to the people. He slipped Lulu
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  Wibblewobble into the empty handbag, and she kept very quiet, for she didn't
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  want to spoil the trick. And then the magician turned to the audience and
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  he said behold, behold, and he lifted out the duck girl. Oh
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  my, how those people did clap, and the lady that owned the handbag
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  was as surprised as anything. Then the man did lots more tricks, and
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  he called a boy and told him to take Lulu and Bolli back home.
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  After he had given them each ten cents for his regular trick, Tuck and
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  Frog were all well again and he could do magic with them. So that's
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  how Lulu and Bolly were in a magical show. And they told all their
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  friends about it, and every one was so surprised that they said oh,
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  oh, oh more than forty eleven times. And next, if a new
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  kitten whose name is Peter doesn't fall into a basket of soap bubbles and wet
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  his tail so he can't go to the moving picture show, I'll tell you
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  about Bully no Tail and Kitty Cat. End of section twenty five