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Bully and Bawly No-Tail by Howard R. (Howard Roger) Garis
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“Oh, dear! I’ll never get home in all this rain without wetting my new
dress and bonnet! Oh, what shall I do?”

“Ha, I wonder if that can be a fairy?” said Grandpa.

“No, I’m not a fairy,” went on the voice. “I’m Nellie Chip-Chip, the
sparrow girl, and I haven’t any umbrella.”

“Oh, ho!” exclaimed Grandpa Croaker as he saw Nellie huddled up under a
big leaf, “why do you come out without an umbrella when it may rain at
any moment? Why do you do it?”

“Oh, I came out to-day to gather some nice wild flowers for my teacher,”
said Nellie. “See, I found some lovely white ones, like stars,” and she
held them out so Grandpa could smell them. But he couldn’t without
hopping over closer to where the little sparrow girl was.

“I was so interested in the flowers that I forgot all about bringing an
umbrella,” went on Nellie, and then she began to cry, for she had on a
new blue hat and dress, and didn’t want them to get spoiled by the rain
that was splashing all over.

“Oh, don’t cry!” begged Grandpa.

“But I can’t get home without an umbrella,” wailed Nellie.

“Oh, I can soon fix that,” said the old gentleman goat—I mean frog.
“See, over there is a nice big toadstool. That will make the finest
umbrella in the world. I’ll break it off and bring it to you, and then
you can fly home, holding it over your head, in your wing, and then your
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