wasn't going to be very
easy to get Sammie out, for the cage was very strong. The boy was in the
house cutting up some cabbage for the rabbit, and the little frog knew
he would have to work very quickly if he was to rescue Sammie.

So Bully hunted until he found a place where he could crawl under the
fence, and he went close up to the cage, and what did he do but hop
inside, thinking he could unlock the door for Sammie. For Bully was
little enough to hop through between the holes in the wire, but Sammie
was too big to get out that way.

But Bully couldn't open the door because the lock was too strong, and
the frog boy couldn't break the wire.

"Oh, if Nurse Jane Fuzzy-Wuzzy were only here!" he exclaimed, "she could
get us out of this trap very soon. But she isn't."

"Let's both together try to break it," proposed Sammie, but they
couldn't do it. I don't know what they would have done, and perhaps
Sammie would have had to stay there forever, but at that moment along
came the old alligator. He looked through the knothole in the fence, and
he saw Sammie and Bully in the cage.

"Ah, here is where I get a good dinner!" thought the alligator, so with
one savage and swooping sweep of his big, scaly tail, he smashed down
the fence and broke the cage all to pieces, but he didn't hurt Bully or
Sammie, very luckily, for they were in a far corner.

"Now's our chance!" cried the frog. "Run, Sammie, run!" And they both
scudded away as fast as they could before the alligator could catch
them, or even before the boy could run out to see what the noise was.
And when the alligator saw the boy the savage creature flurried and
scurried away, taking his scalery-ailery tail with him, and the boy was
very much surprised when he saw that the rabbit was gone.

But Sammie and Bully got safely home, and the next day Sammie went to
school as usual, just as if nothing had happened, and every one said
Bully was very brave to help him.

So that's all for to-night, if you please, and in case the housecleaning
man gets all the ice cream up from under the sitting-room matting, and
makes a snowball of it for the poll parrot to play horse with, I'll tell
you next about Bully and Bawly going to the circus.

STORY XXIX

BULLY AND BAWLY AT THE CIRCUS

"Oh, mamma, may we go?" exclaimed Bawly No-Tail one day as he came home
from school, and hopped into the house with such a big hop, that he
hopped right up into the frog lady's lap.

"Go