| Show FUN WITH COINS from quarter and ten cent piece you can make your gelt a whole menar rl the quarter makes th body ol 01 all the animal and the ten cent piece laced in different positions makes the S ead then add the tails and ears in your own way the pictures above five you a fow ched in a lovely pool hy woods the pool was full of water lilies every evening when the frogs came out to sit on the lily pads and sins sat and talked why was I 1 born to ahe in a mere pool he eald nothing but flies and bugs to cat nothing but illy pads to elt upon no one to see but tiresome frogs and stupid turtles sitting on their everlasting logs it must be so much more beautiful and interesting out in the woods so algred while all about him sang come said they come sing with us but turned his back and would not look at them day by day be grew glum mer and gloomier and finally would cot come out at all one day a queer little fellow came down to the edge of the pool at once he asked here Is frosh in the pool answered the turtles en the log he like our company said the frogs then leaped from pad to pad until he reached the enter of the pool here he bent down and called in a shiell piping voice come up here I 1 ive a message tor your ear pulled his toes out of the mud and swam lazily to the surface of the pool skipped merrily over the illy pads back to the shore of the pool his eyes bulging widely eagerly leaped after him now hear something new said he the turtles on the log called sadly after him you are missing something and the frogs on the illy pads grunted too bad too bad but did not heed them skipped from the edge of the pool to a path through the woods and on and on and on clumsily leaped after him and on and on and on at last stopped they were in the deep woods still but there was no cooling pool nearby brosh kand was tired lie panted wearily like supper Fros hUnd asked what shall I 1 eat said bewildered 1 I dont see anything but flies and bugs you eat flies and bugs at the pool said oh yes said but her in the big woods I 1 thought no matter TV bat you thought said mannlein Mann lLIn files and bugs will have to be your meat 1 I am glad anyway I 1 don t have to sit ori a tiresome lily pad said Fros hUnd snatching at an unwary mosquito after eating announced his intention of continuing fhe journey at once sore legs made him unwilling and wishfully said this moss would make quits a soft mattress we have to hurry mr replied aad he skipped away very fast limped on at last tho wood was left behind and brosh kind for the first time in his life saw a long dusty road again mannlein Mann lLIn stopped here we will t spend the night he said but Is there no water to quench our thirst exclaimed gasping all night long poor panted by the roadside in the morning was up bright and early hurry he said we must get to tle city but could not move his stiff legs his dry tongue too refused to catch the little flies and bucsi about him I 1 cant follow you any longer he said at this ran away laughing poor 1 lie thought of the smooth water illy pads at home so convenient for catching his supper he thought of the patient on their logs the coolness of the pool water if only he could feel a drop of it on his burning tongue 1 ah the pool was not a bad place after ail humph said a strange voice suddenly 1 I wonder how this little came here A dusty roads no place for him put him over in the brook across the lot hell like that better and ten minutes later the cooling water of the brook soothed frosh kinds parched tongue and limbered his tired legs for days and days drank of abo brook and was thankful gow g ow ing steadily stronger all the time each day too he thought more and more kindly of the beautiful pool far tar away in the wood try as hard as be could however he was never able to find his way back far away the turtles on the loaf would say missed much when he was here and every night the frogs on their illy pads would sit and mourn tor the wide world Is no place for small frogs they said A pool Is better mary laurence turnbull tutta A REBUS biere Is a two line verse written in rebus form to gret at the words you r must add or subtract to or from the pictures aa told lo 10 by the plus and minus alens harvey peaks |
