The Swampfolk

Once she got far away from the tea party, Anna looked back and said, "Well, I've had enough nonsense! I'm going home! Straight home!"

As she began walking away, she said, "That rabbit. Who cares where he's going anyway? Why, if it hadn't been for him, I..."

She stopped talking when she noticed a gray sign that had "Devil's Bayou" written on it in black letters. "Devil's Bayou. Hmm, curious. I don't remember this." she said, as she turned away from the sign, unaware of two bats, who were wearing glasses, staring at her.

"Now, let me see."

One of the bats jumped on Anna's face, and she gasped when she spotted Gramps, who was holding a mirror in his mouth. When she looked into it, Gramps looked like he was wearing glasses because of one of the bats.

She placed the bat on the tree branch next to Gramps as she said, "Uh, no, no, please. No more nonsense."

She walked past them, and came up to a log as she said, "Now, if I came this way. I should go back this way!"

She climbed over the log and accidently stepped on a female duck as she said, "Quack!"

"Oh, I beg your pardon!" Anna said, as the duck and her ducklings went over to a lake. The duck jumped in the water and paddled away as the duck said, "Quack! Quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack!"

She then jumped in the water, and followed the ducklings.

The ripples in the water woke up a frog, who was holding a drum, and a toad, who was holding a pair of cymbals, and they jumped on waterlilies as they played the drum and cymbals.

As Anna stepped on the stepping stones, she said, "Goodness. When I get home, I shall write a book about this place. If I...If I ever do get home."

Then she looked over a log to see five albatrosses taking a shower in a small waterfall.

"Oh, umm, excuse me!" she said, as she got the albatrosses' attention, "Um, could one of you tell me..."

She was interrupted when the albatrosses screeched as they flew away, sat on a branch above Anna, and glared down at her. She chuckled nervously as she said, "Uh. Haha. Never mind."

As she wandered around through the forest, she said, "Oh dear. It's getting dreadfully dark. And nothing looks familiar."

She looked to her left to see Digger, who was digging through the dirt with his claws. "I shall certainly be glad to get out of..."

She tried to say something else, but she bumped into an alligator, who was holding a bird cage with Luke and Ellie Mae inside it. The alligator opened the cage door, and Luke and Ellie Mae ran out. The alligator chased after them, and he it them in the cage as Luke and Ellie Mae landed inside the bird cage.

Then Deacon Owl, who was holding an accordion, woke up and hooted. As he flew down at Anna, she ducked, and then Deacon flew away, still playing the accordion.

"It would be so nice if something would make more sense for a change." Anna said.

Moments later, she came across five more bats nailing gray signs to a tree with hammers, and four more moles wrote words on each sign in black letters with pencils.

As they walked away, Anna looked at the signs, and said, "Don't step on the muskrats. The muskrats?"

Suddenly, the muskrat children popped out of the ground, circled around Anna, and got together to form an arrow as they walked. Anna looked ahead to see the muskrat children pointing at a path as she said, "Oh! A path!"

As she ran down the path, a vision of Wilma appeared in sepia. Anna said, "Oh, thank goodness. Why, I just knew I'd find one sooner or later! Oh. If I hurry back, I might even be home in time for dinner with my parents Fred and Wilma Flintstone, my older brother Prince Hans, and my younger brothers Hiro Hamada and Tommy Pickles!" Then a vision of Banjo also appeared in sepia as she said, "Oh, won't Banjo be happy to see me! Oh, I just can't wait till I...Oh!"

She stopped when she saw Deadeye Rabbit sweeping the path away with a broom. He stopped, walked behind Anna, and continued to sweep the path.