Show vre daddy Eve iii fairy tale RY GRAHAM MOM BIG BULLFROG im quite ready to eat anything an thine I 1 see bee said bald sir mr bullfrog im the king of the tha pond as it were and so I 1 will eat cat delicious inies and insects and little turtles and lishes and I 1 will even een oat mt small frogs some think that Is a shocking chocking habit and perhaps it Is but then you iu know I 1 rather enjoy the taste of brogl an it important tant creature such as I 1 nm am silo should uld havo have some rights now I 1 do rik not become a bullfrog in a hurry it takes me a second year ear and sometimes even eun a third to become a ull full sized bullfrog bulldog I 1 remain a n little learning tadpole for a good length of time maybe that Is why im a smart ON ol 01 fellow when I 1 10 lo do become full grown and sit around in my splendid kingly fashion as ruler of the pond when I 1 say that it takes me a second year 3 ear lind and sometimes a third to become a full sized bullfrog I 1 mean that it takes a member of our family that long it takes mo me two to years to become a bullfrog and now I 1 shall enjoy myself if enemies come for roe me I 1 tool fool them young mr air dear bear thought to catch me in ills his paw the other day but I 1 was too quick for him 1 I got down into the mud and when mr air bear pulled up his pow paw all lie he had bad was mud room gooen boog a room boog n room I 1 call that a joke and mr long geak beak bird as I 1 call him or mr heron as lie he would have hava U 11 11 t im the king of the pond on his visiting cards it if he had visiting cards come the other day lie ile might have caught me it if I 1 hod had been sitting upon the mud for I 1 could not go down far enough but what lie would be able to go down after me with that long and very unpleasant beak of ills bis but I 1 was aa sitting by the side of the pond and quick as a flash I 1 was in the water and he had missed me oh you may think as you see me ma sitting here that im not paying pacing attention to what Is going on about me you may think that im dreaming the time away as I 1 sit here blinking but im on the watch match for everything that is going on quick as a flash am 11 II therel did you see that bug lit he came near and I 1 caught him 1 I was so still he had scarcely noticed me but I 1 had noticed him but I 1 think I 1 will go and call on a young miss bullfrog whom I 1 would like to ask to be my mate im not such n sociable old fellow but I 1 do feel that ii it would be nice to have a companion after a t time we will go our own any my benin again but I 1 will explain all that to tn miss bullfrog now that hint it Is curly summer and oni ill at the spring ive been hearing talk of weddings and so BO forth ive almost caught tile the feyer myself but the wedding will bo be very simple I 1 shall dress handsomely ot of course but I 1 wont go in for any fuss or extra expense A little music furnished by myself a good bug banquet and then back to home life in the pond tile the thought quite pleases mo me boog a room I 1 must be off |