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    The Tale of Ferdinand Frog
    The Tale of Ferdinand Frog
    The Tale of Ferdinand Frog
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    The Tale of Ferdinand Frog

    By Harry L. Smith and Arthur Scott Bailey

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateFeb 1, 2008
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      The Tale of Ferdinand Frog - Harry L. Smith

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      Title: The Tale of Ferdinand Frog

      Author: Arthur Scott Bailey

      Illustrator: Harry L. Smith

      Release Date: February 13, 2008 [EBook #24590]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE TALE OF FERDINAND FROG ***

      Produced by Joe Longo, Emmy and the Online Distributed

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      THE TALE OF

      FERDINAND FROG

      SLEEPY-TIME TALES

      (Trademark Registered)

      BY

      ARTHUR SCOTT BAILEY

      AUTHOR OF

      TUCK-ME-IN TALES

      (Trademark Registered)

      ————————

      Mr. Frog Bows to Aunt Polly Woodchuck

      SLEEPY-TIME TALES

      (Trademark Registered)

      ————————

      THE TALE OF

      FERDINAND

      FROG

      BY

      ARTHUR SCOTT BAILEY

      Author of

      TUCK-ME-IN TALES

      (Trademark Registered)

      ILLUSTRATED BY

      HARRY L. SMITH

      NEW YORK

      GROSSET & DUNLAP

      PUBLISHERS

      Made in the United States of America

      Copyright, 1918, by

      GROSSET & DUNLAP

      CONTENTS

      THE TALE OF

      FERDINAND FROG

      I

      PRETTY AS A PICTURE

      There was something about Ferdinand Frog that made everybody smile. It may have been his amazingly wide mouth and his queer, bulging eyes, or perhaps it was his sprightly manner—for one never could tell when Mr. Frog would leap into the air, or turn a somersault backward. Indeed, some of his neighbors claimed that he himself didn't know what he was going to do next—he was so jumpy.

      Anyhow, all the wild folk in Pleasant Valley agreed that Ferdinand Frog was an agreeable person to have around. No matter what happened, he was always cheerful. Nobody ever heard of his losing his temper, though to be sure he was sometimes the means of other peoples losing theirs. But let a body be as angry as he pleased with Mr. Frog, Mr. Frog would continue to smile and smirk.

      Of course, such extreme cheerfulness often made angry folk only the more furious, especially when the whole trouble was Ferdinand Frog's own fault. But it made no difference to him what blunder he had made. He was always ready to make another—and smile at the same time.

      Really, he was so good-natured that nobody could feel peevish towards him for long. In fact, he was a great favorite—especially among the ladies. Whenever he met one of them—it might be the youngest of the Rabbit sisters, or old Aunt Polly Woodchuck—he never failed to make the lowest of bows, smile the broadest of smiles, and inquire after her health.

      That was Ferdinand Frog—known far and wide for his elegant manners. Every young lady declared that he wore exquisite clothes, too; and many of them secretly thought him quite good-looking.

      But people as old as Aunt Polly Woodchuck seldom take heed of what a person wears. As for Mr. Frog's looks, since Aunt Polly believed that handsome is as handsome does, she admitted that Ferdinand Frog was—as she put it—purty as a picter.

      When Ferdinand Frog heard that, he was so delighted that he hurried straight home and put on his best suit. And then he spent most of a whole afternoon smiling at his reflection in the surface of the Beaver pond, where he was living at the time.

      So it is easy to see that Ferdinand Frog was a vain and silly fellow. He was even foolish enough to repeat Aunt Polly's remark to everybody he chanced to meet that night, and the following day as well.

      There was no one who could help grinning at Ferdinand Frog's news—he looked so comical. And

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