AUGUST 9: Mr. Bullfrog
“I am the king of this pond,” said Mr. Bullfrog. “If any one comes here I don’t like, I swallow him! That is the way to get rid of creatures you don’t like!
“Just swallow them!
“I’ve heard people talking who were rowing on the pond and who were gathering pond lilies, and I’ve heard them say how they were interrupted by other people when they had some important work to do.
“And that the people didn’t care in the least if they were interrupting!
“Goog-a-room, goog-a-room, I can imagine nothing more annoying.
“But I cannot understand why people do not swallow these other people who come and annoy them and interrupt them.
“Just suppose an insect hops on my nose and says:
“‘Sorry, Mr. Bullfrog, but I do hope I’m not annoying you.’ I don’t pay any attention to that speech. I know it’s not so. If he cared about not annoying me he wouldn’t land on my nose.
“But I don’t bother to answer him back, for that would be beneath my dignity. So I just swallow him!”