and it was such a nice day, that, when
he came to a place where some flowers grew up near an old stump, nodding
their pretty heads in the wind, the frog boy sang a little song.

"I love to skip and jump and hop,
I love to hear firecrackers pop,
I love to play
The whole long day,
I love to spin my humming top."

That's what Bully sang, and if there had been a second, or a third, or a
forty-'leventh verse he would have sung that too, as he felt so good.
Well, after he had sung the one verse he hopped on some more, and pretty
soon he came to the place where the mouse lady lived, whose basket of
chips Bully had once picked up, when she hurt her foot on a thorn. I
guess you remember about that story.

"Ah, how to you do, Bully?" asked the mouse lady, as the frog boy hopped
along.

"Thank you, I am very well," he answered politely. "I hope you are
feeling pretty good."

"Well," she made answer, "I might feel better. I have a little touch of
cat-and-mouse-trap fever, but I think if I stay in my hole and take
plenty of toasted cheese, I'll be better. But here is a nice sugar
cookie for you," and with that the nice mouse lady went to the cupboard,
got a cookie, and gave it to the frog boy.

Bully ate it without getting a single crumb on the floor, which was very
good of him, and then, saving a piece of the cookie for his brother
Bawly, he hopped on, after bidding the mouse lady good-by and hoping
that she would soon be better.

Along and along hopped Bully, and all of a sudden the big giant jumped
out of the bushes--Oh, excuse me, if you please! there is no giant in
this story. The giant went back to the circus, but I'll tell you a story
about him as soon as I may. As Bully was hopping along, all of a sudden
out from behind a bush there jumped a savage, ugly wolf, and he had
gotten out of his circus cage again, and was looking around for
something to eat.

"Ah, ha! At last I have found something!" cried the wolf, as he made a
spring for Bully, and he caught the frog boy under his paws and held him
down to the earth, just like a cat catches a mouse.

"Oh, let me go! Please let me go! You are squeezing the breath out of
me!" cried poor Bully.

"Indeed I will not let you go!" replied the wolf, real unpleasant-like.
"I have been looking for something to eat all day and now that I've
found it I'm not going to let you go. No, indeed, and some horseradish
in a bottle besides."

"Are you really goin