Show D Alp t DASH PIANCHE STO STORY Y IX IS rII THE TIIE M ADO Story hour among the meadow f was wan 18 a a. great event ent The little m me people would troop down to the of oC the brook to be near the Green Grcen family for tor tho the Green Frogs Frogg you ou 1 are arc never fond of being very far tar n tho water J Well th there re was Tilly Hop HOI her family Billy Bumble Be Bee and s sweetheart art and Cheery Cricket Cricket- wife and baby they baby they generally ca ct ca together Then Johnny Grasshopper his friends alon along with tho the Beetle fi U ily almost always were the tho last to rive nyc t tOno I IOno Ono One night after th the crowd had hafl gt gs 1 credo cred Lazy Snail camo came dr dragging in ml In shell house She had a bundle of at in her hand which she he shook at ati meadow friends 3 Now o well v. ha have 0 no more quarrel over who tells the story she c or cr For Ive I've planned a n way so each eachl 1 get his turn Here is a bundle of ot s sand st and each can select a straw The holding the shortest straw st tells telIs first tonight then the one who whoM hi the next lone longest t straw will t tell thi U. U story first th the th next night and i so f until weve we've each cach told some tal tale n This pleased the meadow folks folk the they hurriedly got Jot in line lino and passe Miss Lazy Snail each choosing a sti str Johnny Grasshopper was tho the 1 lv lq follow he fellow he drew th tho shortest str sti Feeling very proud he hopped to a a blade blado of grass gras and cleared hi his One da day when I w ss s p-s s a a. very cry 1 i fellow began beg Johnny Grasshopper ran a away from home and hopped d dG the great big dusty road until I Ito c ci cito to a garden filled with the sweet flowers In the center of ot the gai ga gal there stood a a. great big brown Of Ot course at m my age ate I didn't know know It was for tor until that da day I had n been awa away from m my mothers mother's house hous houseGo Go uGo on with Ith the stor story cried S Si Bi Beetle We know what that great brown thing was h t j r V VGo Go On With 1 the e Story What was as it cried tho the mea me meat folks and Jimmy Green Fro Frog ha harap haa rap on his base drum for tor quiet j or Of course you OU know Iau lau Johnny Grasshopper It uIt was th that t r f fa house yonder onder Well Just as I re rca rea tho the steps that led up to the open open t tout out rushed a 1 two legged bo boy And before I knew it he hain had hai hadin in his hand lie He took me Into the br house and put me In a big glass ja ia Jan course I didn't know It was as gla gias gini first but after I had bad bumped my about a million times on the sl sic decided It was something I had bad i a aseen seen bore before t I ur nearly wore my suit out tryl get out that Jar but every time I 1 Ito Ii to climb up the sides I slipped do doi doia I a a. hurr hurry I was onas so frightened a aheart an ax heart beat so fast r I couldn't Jur jurn save m my life liCe so there I had to st stever sta ever er and ever er so long Ever Every tin ti- slip sUp down the little boy would and sh J shake e the jar so Id I'd tumble o back Well attar after the little boy bOS called caned him and he he- went ent away I 1 g mighty spring and found myself ting on a table I heard the lItt coming corning BO so I r jumped down to t tand the theand theand and hid under the edge of ot th the covering My y how that little f fi did hunt for me mc and now no ho hoI how I kept I never let out ant a a. peep When hen ho lie grew tired of ot huntin ran away to play and I Jumped jumpe through h th the door and nd over o In the tho I t tas as fast as aa I c uld There I hidI hid I was quite sure no ono would se Then you ou can believe o lIc me or not I Ined ned ried back home to rn my mother and that day to to this rye never been a that road yonder ronder let alone t brown house You folks who f of r never nover been in a prison dont don't kno know happy I was to get g-et home agaID hove me me believe believe me met mel finished J JC Grasshopper V. V 4 all right or Yell Well I belie you JOU Jimmy Green Creen Frog For I e ebrown brown house myself one day and r nd- nd Here Here laughed Iss Snail Only time for tor ono one kno know You have tho the next story tl Jimmy so save savo it Bidding all aJl l the meadow meado folk g night Miss Laz Lazy Lary Snail sent thC them m mon on their Wa way |