they slipped from their seats, when their papa and grandpa were
talking to Uncle Wiggily about the trained seals, and those two frog
boys just hopped right into the middle of the circus ring. At first a
monkey policeman was going to put them out, but they made motions that
they wanted to jump over the elephant, for they couldn't speak policeman
talk, you know.

"Ah ha! I see what they want," said the kind clown. "Well, I don't
believe they can do it, but let them try. It may amuse the people." So
he made the elephant go back to his place, and every one became
interested in what Bully and Bawly were going to do.

"Are you already?" asked Bully of his brother.

"Yes," answered Bawly.

"Then take a long breath, and jump as hard as you can," said Bully. So
they both took long breaths, crouched down on their hind legs, and then
both together, simultaneously and most extraordinarily, they jumped. My,
what a jump it was! Bigger than the time when they got away from the
alligator. Right over the elephant's back they jumped, and they landed
on a pile of soft straw so they weren't hurt a bit. My! You should have
heard the people cheer and clap!

"Good!" cried the clown. "That was a great jump! Will you stay in the
circus with me? I will pay you as much as I pay my dog."

"Oh, no! They must go home," said their papa, as Bully and Bawly went
back to their seats. "That is, after the circus is over," said Mr.
No-Tail.

So the frog boys saw the rest of the show, and afterward all their
friends told them how brave it was to do what they had done.

And for a long time after that whenever any one mentioned what good
jumpers Bully and Bawly were, Sammie Littletail would say:

"Ah, but you should have seen them in the circus one day."

And on the next page, if the lilac bush in our back yard doesn't reach
in through the window, and take off my typewriter ribbon to wear to
Sunday school, I'll tell you about Bully and Bawly playing Indian.

STORY XXX

BULLY AND BAWLY PLAY INDIAN

It happened, once upon a time, after the circus had gone away from the
place where Bully and Bawly No-Tail, the frogs, lived that a Wild West
show came along.

And my goodness! There were cowboys and cowgirls, and buffaloes and
steers and men with lassos, and Mexicans and Cossacks, and Indians! Real
Indians, mind you, that used to be wild, and scalp people, which was
very impolite to do, but they didn't know any better; the Indians didn't
I