New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-05-28

3get what he went after. So it was that
he put the matter of the girl before the
little green frog. Unlike most very wise
people the little frog had a sense Of humor
and he laughed
Cub cub cuh-cack, Cuh-cuh cub cack"
he cackled. And again, 'Cuh-cuh-cuh-cack!
Cub cuh-cuh-cack"
Maybe it's funny to You said the
Knight, but / can't see the joke
Never you-mindl Never you-mndv an
swered tho little frog. wipng the tears
from his eyes. T-can-fx-it!'
I'm sure it would be mighty good OF
you said the Knight. but how?
I.eave-tha Leave-that-to- me,
CuE-cuh- cub -cack, Cuh-cuh- cuh-cackr And
the little frog laughed until he fell off of
the limb. and the Knight picked him mp
and put him back. Then the knight, doubt
ing, walked slowly away. hearing the little
frogs 'Cuh-cuh-cuh -cack. Cuh-cuh-cuh
cack" until he got nearly to his castle.
Now. it so happened that one of the
cogs in the Knights machine was man
who. once in a while-iust once in a while,
when he felt had-had a trick of turning a
bottle upside down To see what was in IT.
And after working the trick he was always
cantankerous as they say i'm Indiana. one
night the Little Green Frog sent a mos
quito friend 10 wait on this man. sing him
a popular song or two and otherwise enter
tain him until daylight. The next morning
the man got out OF bed on the wrong side.
as the saving goes, and he worked the
bottle trick two or three times before he
,f no I'M
while the committee was in session trying
10 decide what To do about girl the man
broke loose.
! don't See. he said, why We should he
so doggone nice about this business II a
woman amt got any more sense than to
get into politics she's got to take the con
sequences. Anyhow, she amt such a much
She
Hold on here. Bill put in the Knight
that girls runnin' against me, but | won't
stand for any talk about her
I'll say what | please an where I
please Jim Henson said the man. and
you amt big enough To stop me. | tell yoi
she's no lady or she wouldn't
Take that back. Bill, said the Knight
getting to his feet
81 won't says the man, and I'll say
it again. She's mo-
And before the rest of the committee
could interfere the knight had plugged the
man under the ear. and. being "A hit wabbly
in his legs from the bottles. he went to the
floor.
"All of which was just as the Little
Green Frog had arranged IT,
Now, when the girl heard about this.
which. Of course she did she was sorely
troubled in her heart but she didn't consult
any green frogs or anything else green or
Icd or purple She went straightway to
call on the Knight and she told him lust
what she thought about II, and although
she didn't put 1t exactly that way. he got
the impression that she believed him to he
a real Knight ana hero and gentleman
all rolled into one. which isn't always the
case. as everybody knows And he was
very much sweled up within himself and
be stepped high when he walked and he
saw flowers in the middle of the street and
stars IN the day sky. For what she said
wasn't all. He had looked into her evcs
and there had seen something that he had
never noticed in the county records or any
where else lie didn't know what IL WAS
hut whatever IL was he liked IL. So after
day or two he went around to see tho
girl ana find out some more about IT, And
lac talked of everything under the sun but