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Updated: June 14, 2025
"'That is all very well, Mr Bullfrog, said my wife, slily; 'but in that case where would have been the five thousand dollars which are to stock your drygoods' store? "'Mrs Bullfrog, upon your honour, demanded I, as if my life hung upon her words, 'is there no mistake about these five thousand dollars? "'Upon my word and honour there is none, replied she.
The black mare Nickie rode was one of the three hired to drag the Museum into Bullfrog. She was a rather spirited little beast, and had shown great perturbation when Mr. Crips, in his full make-up as Mahdi, the Missing Link, approached to mount. Now she cantered ahead at a smart pace, still nervous about the monstrous thing upon her back.
When the Bullfrog had ceased speaking the King turned toward the Wise Men and said, angrily: "It seems you are wrong again, for the Frog is innocent. Your boasted wisdom appears to me very like folly; but I will give you one more chance. If you fail to discover the culprit next time, I shall punish you far more severely than I at first promised."
No signs of life occurred near him, but occasionally the melancholy chirp of a cricket, or perhaps the guttural twang of a bullfrog from a neighboring marsh, as if sleeping uncomfortably and turning suddenly in his bed. All the stories of ghosts and goblins that he had heard in the afternoon now came crowding upon his recollection.
"Toads are fat animals," he corrected her. "I'm not. More like a bullfrog, if you like. What am I going to do? Why, just squat, I guess." As he leaned back against the limb which offered its support to his shoulders Terry noted that he wore in full sight at his side the heavy Colt he had bought the other night in Red Creek. A new habit, with Steve Packard. "Gunman, are you?" she jeered.
I fear that the reader will not believe, yet it is positively a fact, that there stood Mrs. Bullfrog, with her glossy ringlets curling on her brow, and two rows of orient pearls gleaming between her parted lips, which wore a most angelic smile.
He burst out into a roar, swearing in volleys. "D' ye think I wish to appear contemptible?" he shouted. "D' ye think I like to sit here like an old wife, scolding in one breath and preaching thrift in the next? A weak-kneed, chicken-livered, white-bellied old bullfrog that squeaks and jumps, plunk! into the puddle when a footstep falls in the grass! Am I not a patroon? Am I not Dutch?
At this, Herbert thought proper to offer a witticism for the pleasure of the company. "You know, Florence," he said, "it only means acting like you most always do." He applauded himself with a burst of changing laughter ranging from a bullfrog croak to a collapsing soprano; then he added: "Espeshually when you come around my and Henry's Newspaper Building!
"Why, it's a bulldog, an English bulldog!" exclaimed Whitey, who had seen many of this breed in the East. "More like bullfrog," Injun maintained solemnly. "What him do eat bulls?" The brute's appearance surely was forbidding enough, and if Injun had been subject to fear, which he wasn't, he would have felt it now.
This idea seemed the most probable, since I could nowhere perceive Mrs. Bullfrog alive, nor, though I looked very sharply about the coach, could I detect any traces of that beloved woman's dead body. There would have been a comfort in giving her Christian burial. "Come, sir, bestir yourself!
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