SOME OF NATURE’S CHORISTERS 
“ Well,” giggled Alice, from the depths of the 
“ Joke Column ” she was reading, “ listen to this: 
4 1 hear they have the King of the Bullfrogs in 
jail.’ 4 What for? ’ 4 Somebody heard him talk¬ 
ing about smuggling a Jug-er-rum! ’ ” 
44 So he did,” Tommy laughed, delightedly. 44 1 
heard him myself, just last night, and the tidings 
seemed to create all sorts of commotion all over 
Frog Town. There were various deep-drawn 
4 Ker-chogs! ’ Advice no doubt as to what to do 
with the Jug-er-rum! And then came a vigorous 
scoffing of ‘Ker-peep, ker-peep!’ I’ll bet you 
anything you like, they were hazing some peeper.” 
44 Our reading lesson to-day was about a great 
frog parade,” commented Ruth, her eyes shining. 
44 And I’ll bet you can’t guess what the captain’s 
steed was? A little green lizard! Yes, sir. And 
how proud they all were as they marched away 
after him! Their spears of marsh grass were 
over their shoulders. Water weeds made the fine 
plumes in their caps. Their flags had all grown 
in the pool. For trumpets they had the seed 
pods of the water-lily. And such music as they 
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