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BULLY AND SAMMIE LITTLETAIL · Bully and Bawly No-Tail (the Jumping Frogs)

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  Story twenty eight of Bully and Bali 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. Gerris Bully and Sammie Littletail. One
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  day, when the nice young lady Robin's school teacher, about whom I told
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  you last night, called the roll of her class to see if all the
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  animal children were there, Samuel Littletail the rabbit boy didn't answer. Why,
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  I wonder where Sammy can be, asked the teacher, has any one seen
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  him this morning? They all shook their heads and Bully No Tail the frog
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  boy answered, if you please, teacher, Perhaps his sister Susy knows.
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  Oh, of course, Why didn't I think to ask her, said the
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  teacher. So she looked over on the girl's side of the room. But
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  would you believe it, Susie the rabbit girl wasn't there either. That is
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  very odd, said the teacher. Both Sammy and Susie out. I hope
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  they haven't the epizeutic or the mumps or carrot fever or anything like that.
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  Well, we'll go on with our lessons and perhaps they will come in later.
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  So the first thing the pupils did was to sing a little song.
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  And though I can't make up very nice ones, I'll do the best I
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  can to give you an idea of it. This is how it went to
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  the tune Tom Tom Tom tittledum, good morning. How are you? We
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  hope you're quite well. We're feeling most jolly, so hard to us a
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  spell? See yea and the tea with a dot aun ee, I mix
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  cat doggarrett or a bird in the sky. Take two and two more?
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  What have you tive? What for? Oh? Of course see the bee
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  in the hive. Now sing the last verse, Ah, isn't it pretty?
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  We're glad that you like our dear little kitty. Well, after the
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  children had sung that, they all looked around to see if Sammy or Susy
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  had come in, but they hadn't, And then the lessons began and everyone
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  got a perfect mark. Still, the Rabbit children didn't come, and after
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  school, Bully no Tail said, I think I'll stop at Sammye's house and
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  see what is the matter. I wish you would spoke the teacher, and
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  then you can tell us tomorrow. I hope he is not ill. But
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  Sammy was worse than ill, as Bully very soon found out. When he
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  got to the house, he found mister and missus Littletail very much excited.
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  Missus Littletail was crying, and so was Susie. And as for Nurse Jane,
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  Fuzzy Wuzzy, the muskrat lady, she was washing up the dishes so
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  fast that she broke a cup and saucer and dropped a knife and spoon.
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  And Uncle Wiggily Longears was limping around on his crutch, striped red, white
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  and blue like a barber pole, and saying, oh dear, oh dear
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  me, oh hum, suh's dud. Why whatever has happened? Asked Bully.
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  Is Sammy dead? Worse than that, said Susy, wiping her eyes
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  on her apron. Much worse, chimed in Uncle Wiggily, just think,
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  Bully. When Sammy was starting off for school this morning, he went off
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  in the woods a little way to see if he could find a wild carrot.
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  When a big boy rushed up, grabbed him and put him in a
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  bag. Before any of us could save him, and now he's gone,
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  completely gone. So that's why he didn't come to school today, said Nurse
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  Jane, sadly. And I didn't feel like tell me either, spoke Susy,
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  crying some more. I tried to find Sammy, but I couldn't.
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  Oh dear boo oo. We all tried to find him, said mister Littletail,
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  sadly, but we can't, added missus Littletail, still more sadly.
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  Our Sammy is gone. The bad boy has him. Oh that is awful,
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  cried Bully. But I'll see if I can't find him for you.
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  So Bully hopped off through the woods, hoping he could find where the boy
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  lived who had taken Sammy away with him. And if I find him,
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  I'll help Sammy to get away, thought Bully. So he went on and
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  on, but for a long time he couldn't find Sammy. For listen,
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  the boy who had caught the little rabbit had taken Sammy home and had made
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  a cage for him. I'm going to keep you forever, said the boy,
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  looking in through the wire cage at Sammy. I've always wanted a rabbit,
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  and now I have one. Well, poor Sammy asked the boy to
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  let him go, but the boy didn't understand rabbit language, and maybe he
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  wouldn't have let the bunny go anyhow Well, it was getting dark and Sammy
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  was very much frightened in his cage, and he was wondering whether any of
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  his friends would find him and help him escape. I'll call out loud so
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  they'll know where to look for me, he said, and he grunted as
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  loudly as he could and whistled through his twinkling nose. Well, it happened
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  that just when Bully was hopping up a little hill and he heard Sammy calling.
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  That's Sammy, exclaimed Bully. Now if I can only rescue him,
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  So the frog boy hopped on farther, and pretty soon he came to the
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  yard of the house where the boy lived, and Bully peeped in through a
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  knothole on the fence and he saw Sammy in the cage. Oh, I'm
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  so glad, cried Sammy, clapping his paws. But after he had said
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  it, Bully saw that it wasn't going to be very easy to get Sammy
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  out, for the cage was very strong. The boy was in the house
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  cutting up some cabbage for the rabbit and the little frog knew he would have
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  to work very quickly if he was to rescue Sammy. So Bully hunted until
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  he found a place where he could crawl under the fence. And he went
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  close up to the cage. And what did he do but hop inside,
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  thinking he could unlock the door for Sammie. But Bully was little enough to
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  hop through between the holes and the wire. But Sammy was too big to
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  get out that way. But Bully couldn't open the door because the lock was
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  too strong, and the frog boy couldn't break the wire. Oh, if
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  Nurse Jane Fuzzy Wuzzy were only here, he exclaimed, she could get us
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  out of this trap very soon. But she isn't. Let's both together try
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  to break it, proposed Sammy. But they couldn't do it. I don't
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  know what they would have done, and perhaps Sammy would have had to stay
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  there forever. But at that moment, along came the old alligator. He
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  looked through the nuthole in the fence and he saw Sammy and Bully in the
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  cage. Ah, here is where I get a good dinner, thought the
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  alligator. So, with one savage and swooping sweep of his big scaly tail.
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  He smashed down the fence and broke the cage all to pieces, but
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  he didn't hurt Bully or Sammy very luckily, for they were in a far
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  corner. Now's our chance, cried the frog, Run, Sammy run,
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  and they both scudded away as fast as they could, before the alligator could
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  catch them, or even before the boy could run out to see what the
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  noise was. And when the alligator saw the boy, the savage creature flurried
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  and scurried away, taking his scalery aleery tail with him, and the boy
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  was very much surprised when he saw that the rabbit was gone. But Sammy
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  and Bully got safely home, and the next day Sammy went to school as
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  usual, just as if nothing had happened, and everyone said Bully was very
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  brave to help him. So that's all for tonight, if you please.
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  And in case, the house cleaning man gets all the ice cream up from
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  under the sitting room matting and makes a snowball of it for the pole parrot
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  to play horse with. I'll tell you next about Bully and Bally going to
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  the circus. End of story twenty eight read by Renee R. Smith April
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  two thousand, twenty three