as they could, and so did Grandpa Croaker. But the well was so deep, and
their voices sounded so loud and rumbling, coming out of the hole in the
ground, that every one thought it was thunder. And the animal people
feared it would rain, so they all ran home, and no one thought of
grandpa and the two frog boys in the deep well.

But at last along came Alice Wibblewobble, and, being a duck, she didn’t
mind a thunder storm. So she didn’t run away, and she heard Grandpa
Croaker and Bully and Bawly calling for help at the bottom of the well.
She asked what was the trouble, and Bully told her what had happened.

“Oh, you silly boys, to jump down a well!” exclaimed Alice. “But never
fear, I’ll help you up.” So they never feared, and Alice got a rope and
lowered it down to them, and then, with the help of her brother Jimmie
and her sister Lulu, she pulled all three frogs up from the well, and
they lived happy for ever after, and drank the water that had no fishes
in it.

Now if the faucet in the kitchen sink doesn’t turn upside down, and
squirt the water on the ceiling and into the cat’s eye, I’ll tell you
next about Papa No-Tail in trouble.




STORY VI

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