STORY II

BULLY MAKES A WATER WHEEL


Bully No-Tail, the frog boy, was sitting out in the yard in front of his
house, with his knife and a lot of sticks. He was whittling the sticks,
and making almost as many chips and shavings as a carpenter, and as he
whittled away he whistled a funny little tune, about a yellow
monkey-doodle with a pink nose colored blue, who wore a slipper on one
foot, because he had no shoe.

Pretty soon, along came Dickie Chip-Chip, the sparrow boy, and he
perched on the fence in front of Bully, put his head on one side—not on
one side of the fence, you know, but on one side of his own little
feathered neck—and Dickie looked out of his bright little eyes at Bully,
and inquired:

“What are you making?”

“I am making a water-wheel,” answered the frog boy.

“What! making a wheel out of water?” asked the birdie in great surprise.
“I never heard of such a thing.”

“Oh, no indeed!” exclaimed Bully with a laugh. “I’m making a wheel out
of wood, so that it will go ‘round and ‘round in the water, and make a
nice splashing noise. You see it’s something like the paddle-wheel of a