Bully and Bawly No-Tail

Bully and Bawly No-Tail

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Title: Bully and Bawly No-Tail
Author: Howard R. Garis
Illustrator: Louis Wisa
Release Date: June 16, 2006 [EBook #18599]
Language: English
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BEDTIME STORIES
BULLY AND BAWLY NO-TAIL (THE JUMPING FROGS)
BY HOWARD R. GARIS
Author of "Sammie and Susie Littletail," "Uncle Wiggily's Automobile," "Daddy Takes Us Camping," "The Smith Boys," "The Island Boys," etc.
ILLUSTRATED BY LOUIS WISA
A. L. BURT COMPANY PUBLISHERS, NEW YORK

THE FAMOUS BED TIME SERIES
Five groups of books, intended for reading aloud to the little folks each night. Each volume contains 8 colored illustrations, 31 stories, one for each day of the month. Handsomely bound in cloth. Size 6-1/2 x 8-1/4.
Price 60 cents per volume, postpaid
HOWARD R. GARIS' Bed Time Animal Stories
No. 1. SAMMIE AND SUSIE LITTLETAIL No. 2. JOHNNY AND BILLY BUSHYTAIL No. 3. LULU, ALICE & JIMMIE WIBBLEWOBBLE No. 5. JACKIE AND PEETIE BOW-WOW No. 7. BUDDY AND BRIGHTEYES PIGG No. 9. JOIE, TOMMIE AND KITTIE KAT No. 10 CHARLIE AND ARABELLA CHICK No. 14 NEDDIE AND BECKIE STUBTAIL No. 16 BULLY AND BAWLY NO-TAIL No. 20 NANNIE AND BILLIE WAGTAIL No. 28 JOLLIE AND JILLIE LONGTAIL
Uncle Wiggily Bed Time Stories
No. 4 UNCLE WIGGILY'S ADVENTURES No. 6 UNCLE WIGGILY'S TRAVELS No. 8 UNCLE WIGGILY'S FORTUNE No. 11 UNCLE WIGGILY'S AUTOMOBILE No. 19 UNCLE WIGGILY AT THE SEASHORE No. 21 UNCLE WIGGILY'S AIRSHIP No. 27 UNCLE WIGGILY IN THE COUNTRY
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Copyright, 1915, by R. F. FENNO & COMPANY

BULLY AND BAWLY NO-TAIL
The stories herein contained appeared originally in the Evening News, of Newark, N. J., where (so many children and their parents were kind enough to say) they gave pleasure to a number of little folks and grown-ups also. Permission to issue the stories in book form was kindly granted by the publisher and editor of the News, to whom the author extends his thanks.

Contents
STORY I BULLY AND BAWLY GO SWIMMING 9 STORY II BULLY MAKES A WATER WHEEL 15 STORY III BAWLY AND UNCLE WIGGILY 21 STORY IV BULLY'S AND BAWLY'S BIG JUMP 26 STORY V GRANDPA CROAKER DIGS A WELL 34 STORY VI PAPA NO-TAIL IN TROUBLE 40 STORY VII BULLY NO-TAIL PLAYS MARBLES 46 STORY VIII BAWLY AND THE SOLDIER HAT 52 STORY IX GRANDPA CROAKER AND THE UMBRELLA 58 STORY X BAWLY NO-TAIL AND JOLLIE LONGTAIL 65 STORY XI BULLY AND THE WATER BOTTLE 71 STORY XII BAWLY NO-TAIL GOES HUNTING 77 STORY XIII PAPA NO-TAIL AND THE GIANT 83 STORY XIV BAWLY AND THE CHURCH STEEPLE 90 STORY XV BULLY AND THE BASKET OF CHIPS 97 STORY XVI BAWLY AND HIS WHISTLES 104 STORY XVII GRANDPA CROAKER AND UNCLE WIGGILY 110 STORY XVIII MRS. NO-TAIL AND MRS. LONGTAIL 117 STORY XIX BAWLY AND ARABELLA CHICK. 123 STORY XX BAWLY AND ARABELLA CHICK. 128 STORY XXI GRANDPA AND BRIGHTEYES PIGG 135 STORY XXII PAPA NO-TAIL AND NANNIE GOAT 141 STORY XXIII MRS. NO-TAIL AND NELLIE CHIP-CHIP 148 STORY XXIV BULLY AND ALICE WIBBLEWOBBLE 154 STORY XXV BAWLY AND LULU WIBBLEWOBBLE 161 STORY XXVI BULLY NO-TAIL AND KITTIE KAT 168 STORY XXVII HOW BAWLY HELPED HIS TEACHER 174 STORY XXVIII BULLY AND SAMMIE LITTLETAIL 180 STORY XXIX BULLY AND BAWLY AT THE CIRCUS 186 STORY XXX BULLY AND BAWLY PLAY INDIAN 194 STORY XXXI THE FROGS' FAREWELL HOP 200

BULLY AND BAWLY NO-TAIL
STORY I
BULLY AND BAWLY GO SWIMMING
Once upon a time, not so very many years ago, there were two little frog boys who lived in a little pond near a nice big farm. It wasn't very far from where Peetie and Jackie Bow-Wow, the puppy dogs, had their home, and the frogs' house was right next door to the pen where Lulu and Alice and Jimmie Wibblewobble the ducks lived.
There was Bully No-Tail, and his brother Bawly No-Tail, and the reason Bawly had such a funny name was because when he was a little baby he used to cry a good bit. And once he cried so much that he made a lot more water in the pond than should have been there, and it ran over, just like when you put too much milk in your glass, and made the ground all wet.
The last name of the frogs was "No-Tail," because, being frogs, you see, they had no tails.
But now Bawly was larger, and he didn't