The Powder River County examiner and the Broadus independent. [volume] (Broadus, Mont.) 1919-1935, 1919-10-17
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FROGS, LIZARDS AND sNAlLs.
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LETS start club" said Grandpa
Frog
"What sort OF club will IT. be?"
| asked Lionel Lizard.
"Oh. what do you care what sort OF
| club 1t will be? asked Samson Snail.
He always spoke last. He never got
| around to speaking before anyone else
had finished
"We want it to be fine club" said
Grandpa Frog.
'Of course we do" said Lionel Liz
ard.
You don't know what sort Of n
club Grandpa Frog is thinking Of"
! said Sampson Snail "You shouldn't
| be such S,narty."
| "Ah. but have a very good idea"
| said Lionel Lizard. "But even if
| hadn't l have a good idea Of the sort
OF club which Grandpa Frog would
think Of"
''H"w smart you are" said Sampson
Snail. 'For my part if we do get up
a club. or start one, or whatever it is
one does with club. think we
| shouldn't he too particular what sort
of Il club it is"
"Why not. gOOg-a rum. gOOg-a.rum?"
asked Grandpa Frog. sGoog-a -rum. I
never did hear of such talk"
"les. why not. why n"t:" asked
Lionel Lizard "What ever do you mean
by saying such thing?"
'Just for this reason" drawled Samp-
son Snail. ut would seem to me II
pity if ever we got up club and both
cred to stop and think about what sort
it should be-
You mean you'd rather 60 hurrying
right on to fixing up the cluh?" asked
Grandpa Frog, his right eye winking
and his left eye blinking.
"You don't want to stop for any
thing, you're in such Il hurry about the
club. eh?" asked Lionel Lizard.
'Oh. no. oh. no." said Sampson Snail.
II mean that once we got so far as
deciding we'd have Il club we shouldn't
take extra time in deciding the sort
O.: Il club il was going to be. We'd nave
to wait so long for that"
1--WE wouldn't have to wait long
il we hurried Il little bit" said Grand
pa Frog.
"That wouldn't he so much" said
Lionel Lizard.
".Are you asking me to join this
club" asked Sampson Snail.
IT" he sure. g"nga-rlm, yo"g-a-
r,m." said Grandpa Frog.
"Of course we are" said Lionel Liz
ard
"rhen." said Sampson Snail zone
OF the first things you had better do is
to make Il rule and bylaw and Il
regulation. and the rest of it. and you'd
better post the notices everywhere:
"'Tlere is to be no hurryiny in this
club"
Both Grandpa Frog and Lionel Liz
!; arh laughed hard.
! my idea was" said Grandpa Frog.
/ ''for us to have II club and call it
/ the Frogs. Lizards. and Snails' De-
par,ment Of Water Health"
i something the same idea as had."
said Lionel Lizard. who was water
!. lizard vt course.
well" said Sampson Snail, II may
agree with You when l got around t"
I thinking about it. But l mustn't be
!, hurried"
: Days passed. and after Il long-,lrawn-
\ out talk on the part "f the Snnil>.
Simpson came t" Grandpa Frog and
! Lionel Lizard. VIII" We're having IL chat
I ut the time. and he said:
''Friend>. we have agreed. we think
the club would he nice. and we like
the name. But we haven't yet had
time to discover Just what ii menus
= "l"n've had time enough to think
e about it," laughed Grandpa Frog.
"N"t in our time" said Sampson
Snail
:. We'll. l will explain t" You" said
= Grandpa Frog. "and by the time III,
club is really very old you >naiS viii
'. knnw all the rules and regulation,
which Lionel and myself and our fam
lilies now know. But you'll be goo"
members, $" We'll let you in before yo,
r. have learned all the rules.
''i"u sec. they have committees al
organizations or something of the SCR,
called departments of health. They'r.
+" see that things and cities and build
inyS are KEEP, clean.
"Well. all Of us purify water. We d,
u great. great deal Of good. so ".
II should he called something special, an,
v let folks know about us. That's tn,
;" idea "f the club" And Ill the snail
4 We're made members, too!