Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-07-17

Little Johnny's Talk About Frogs. Ele-
plants, Bears, and Other Wild Amt
mails.
San Francisco Argonaut
There was a frog and ephalent, and
the ephalent it said to the frog:
"Were wude you be il / wude step on
to your"
The frog said:
"You must be mighty big foolif you
think such an act as that would make
me go away"
The ephalent sed he ment wot wude
become of the frog, which thot while
and then sed, the frog did:
"Well, won't deny that il you done
il a purpose, and bore on as hard as you
cude, it wude make me hoppin' mad"
Then the epalent made figger s out
of his probuscus, which is their way to
smile, and wocked away like he was
ticle TO death, but when | tickle Missy,
that's my sisters nose with grass while
she was asleep she snoze and rubd 1t
with her forefinger, and her fleets is
ticklish, too, on their bottoms.
Mister Pitched, that's the preacher he
says;
Zone time frog and hop tod they
met and the frog sassed the hop tode
COS it was clumsy, but the tode it sed:
If you will come here on this fiat stone,
where We can start even, lie beat you
jumpin, best two out of j.
$50 they done it,and the first time the
tode it only just cleared the stone, but
the frog it went up so hi that it hurt it.
self coming down, and cudn't jump no
more at all, and the tode beat it the
other . times"
Then Billy he spoke up and sed:
$50 the tode won the RUBBER and
Mister Pitched he sed: William, l
don't kno' wot you mean by rubber,
COS it's a word witch isn't in the Bible,
and is the speech of the worldly and sim
fle; but, William, it is true that it was
ordained by Providence that the tode
got away with the odd game"
Marbles is the game for me, yes in
deed, but no snatch un; and tit, tat to is
mighty good fun too, when | get three
in 70.
And now lie tell you a story about a
bear. One day the bear he went among
a flock of Sleeps and picked out a nice
little lamb, and cot it and the lamb 1t
said ba-ba-ba, cos it knew it was goin
for to be ct every little tiny bit up. But
the bear took it up in his fore pos like
it was baby, and set it up full ZENITH
and rocked, it and sed:
"There, there, never mind, my pre-
cious darlin, where does it hurt your
But that lamb kept hollerin louder
and louder, cos vile the bear was smilin
and singing hush a boy, he was
skaweezin liter and liter all the time.
Bime by the old ramb he seen wot was
up, and he dropt his head, the old ramb
did, and come up like he was shot out
of gun and let him have it, and
doubled him up like he was razor, and
set him a rollin over and over without
any preshous darlin. And wen the
bear had pulled hisself together again
and shuk the dust out OF his hair he
sed:
81 have observed that lambs tails was
quicken lightlin, but / dident know
they was poweriuller, toe"
Jest then he seed how it was, for there
stood the old ramb holding down his
head ready to let him have 1t again, and
shaking 1t, like he sed:
"The little shaver wudent make more
than a mouthful for a teller like you. |
CESS YOU better serve up the old man.
But the bear he wocked off shakln
hisn, too, much as to say:
81 don't banker after dinner which
goes against my stomach like that!