Part 15 (2/2)

Along and along hopped Bully, and all of a sudden the big giant jumped out of the bushes-Oh, excuse me, if you please! there is no giant in this story. The giant went back to the circus, but I'll tell you a story about him as soon as I may. As Bully was hopping along, all of a sudden out from behind a bush there jumped a savage, ugly wolf, and he had gotten out of his circus cage again, and was looking around for something to eat.

”Ah, ha! At last I have found something!” cried the wolf, as he made a spring for Bully, and he caught the frog boy under his paws and held him down to the earth, just like a cat catches a mouse.

”Oh, let me go! Please let me go! You are squeezing the breath out of me!” cried poor Bully.

”Indeed I will not let you go!” replied the wolf, real unpleasant-like.

”I have been looking for something to eat all day and now that I've found it I'm not going to let you go. No, indeed, and some horseradish in a bottle besides.”

”Are you really going to eat me?” asked Bully, sorrowfully.

”I certainly am,” replied the wolf. ”You just watch me. Oh, no, I forgot. You can't see me eat you, but you can feel me, which is much the same thing.”

Then the wolf sharpened his teeth on a sharpening stone, and he got ready to eat up the frog boy. Now Bully didn't want to be eaten, and I don't blame him a bit; do you? He wanted to go play ball, and have a lot of fun with his friends, and he was thinking what a queer world this is, where you can be happy and singing a song, and eating a sugar cookie one minute, and the next minute be caught by a wolf. But that's the way it generally is.

Then, as Bully thought of how good the sugar cookie was he asked the wolf:

”Will you let me go for a piece of cookie, Mr. Wolf?”

”Let me see the cookie,” spoke the savage creature.

So Bully reached in his pocket, and took out the piece of cookie that he was saving for Bawly. He knew Bawly would only be too glad to have the wolf take it, if he let his brother Bully go.

But, would you ever believe it? That unpleasant and most extraordinary wolf animal s.n.a.t.c.hed the cookie from Bully's paw, ate it up with one mouthful, and only smiled.

”Well, now, are you going to let me go?” asked Bully.

”No,” said the wolf. ”That cookie only made me more hungry. I guess I'll eat you now, and then go look for your brother and eat him, too.”

”Oh, will no one save me?” cried Bully in despair, and just then he heard a rustling in the bushes. He looked up and there he saw Dottie Trot, the little pony girl. She waved her hoof at Bully, and then the frog boy knew she would save him if she could. So he thought of a plan, while Dottie, with her new red hair ribbon tied in a pink bow, hid in the bushes, where the wolf couldn't see her, and waited.

”Well, if you are going to eat me, Mr. Wolf,” said Bully, most politely, after a while, ”will you grant me one favor before you do so?”

”What is it?” asked the wolf, still sharpening his teeth.

”Let me take one last hop before I die?” asked Bully.

”Very well,” answered the wolf. ”One hop and only one, remember. And don't think you can get away, for I can run faster than you can hop.”

Bully knew that, but he was thinking of Dottie Trot. So the wolf took his paws off Bully, and the frog boy got ready to take a last big hop.

He looked over through the bushes, and saw the pony girl, and then he gave a great, big, most tremendous and extraordinarily strenuous jump, and landed right on Dottie's back!

”Here we go!” cried the pony girl. ”Here is where I save Bully No-Tail!

Good-by bad Mr. Wolf.” And away she trotted as fast as the wind.

”Here, come back with my supper! Come back with my supper!” cried the disappointed wolf, and off he ran after Dottie, who had Bully safely on her back.

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