Zorro and the Frog
2016/07/03
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"Oh, Zorrrrooooo? Where are you?" John called out cheerfully as he
walked into the office with his hands behind his back. "I've got someone
I'd like you to meet." Zorro sauntered in behind John with his cheeks and two paws full of bits of cheese. "Hey, Dude," he said, "what's that weird green blob behind your back?" John jumped and let out a little squeak of alarm. "Zorro! Stop sneaking around! And have you been raiding the fridge again? Didn't we talk about that?" "Yeah, talk is all we did, but I didn't see any cheese forthcoming, so I took it upon myself to procure some sustenance for the afternoon." John shook his head and then said, "Okay, whatever—for now. Anyway, I've got someone I'd like you to meet. Meet Freddy! I hope you and he will be good friends. I'm sure you'll do all you can to make him welcome." Zorro tipped his head and looked at the green thing John was holding. He said, "Uhhh, okay. Welcome, Freddy. What are you? Some kind of green fungal growth or something?" Two bulging little eyes peeked out from behind John's arm. "I'm pleased to meet you, Zorro. I'm Freddy. I'm a Fair Frog. I'm so glad to have a permanent home and not have to continue moving around from place to place." Zorro looked at the frog and said, "… "Uh, John? Is Freddy moving in to the puppet apartment? It's already pretty crowded in there." John said, "Zorro I'm sure you'll make room for him. It'll be fun." Zorro said, "Okay. Uhhhhh…he doesn't eat cheese does he?" Freddy said, "Cheese? I'm not sure. Normally I have flies and short lil' critters." Zorro said, "Flies? I haven't had flies since the drought of I don't remember when. This should work out fine. Flies for dessert and whatever I can pillage. So, welcome lil' green dude. You and I can rock this place along with… all my other vriends who show up now and then. "That sounds great," said Freddy. By the way, I also eat other kinds of bugs and even small fish. I think I'm called a Bullfrog, but I don't remember for sure. I was caught when I was only a tadpole, and tadpoles don't know or remember much." "Uh. I'm not so sure about the creepy-crawlies, But maybe worms and pieces of fish." "Oh, yummy," said Freddy. "That would be delicious!" Then Freddy said, "I really like to be in water a lot of the time. Can I do that here?" "Sure," said Zorro. "Do you know how to do any tricks?" "Sure, I do, said Freddy. "I can…" …do a forward twisting somersault in the tuck position when I hop from lily pad to lily pad in the pond back home!" Zorro cocked his head quizzically and asked "A what?? It sure sounds tricky. I know what a somersault is, but what's the part about twisting? Is that a dance? I think I've seen the Dude and Mrs. Dude doing it to the oldies." "No, No," said Freddy, "the twist part is when you're in mid-air and you're going forward and then your legs are on top and you can see the sky and… oh it would just be easier to show you! Can we find a pond somewhere?" "Sure. John and Mary have a cool pond on the back deck. Although it's not really very cool. It's actually pretty hot most of the time. Let me make us some snacks and I'll meet you out there." Zorro prepared some Ants on a Log, some Firefly Soup, some Green Algae Coolers and some Jell-O Fish and headed out to the deck. He tossed some floaties in the water to be like lily pads. Just then a fly went buzzing by. "Got it," said Freddy. Zorro said, "Lay it over here to go with the rest. Wow you're fast!" "Yeah," said Freddy, "be fast or hungry." Zorro said, "Did you have a enlarged tongue?" "Of course not. This is normal." Freddy did a flip and went to the lily pad just as… the two owlets, Vinky and Vobble, stopped by for a visit. "Hi you gutz," called Vinky. "Who's the new green guy?" "This is Freddy," replied Zorro. "He's a frog. Vaca brought him home from the fair!" "Wow," said Vobble. "He's the biggest frog we've ever seen! We've only seen little treefrogs before." Then Vinky remembered her manners and said Hi Freddy! I'm Vinky and this is my brother Vobble. We're barn owls." "I've never met any owls before," said Freddie. "This is really exciting. Do you live around here?" "We do" replied Vinky. "See that Owlbox near the back of the lawn? That's where we live!" Freddy's eyes grew really big... "Jeepers Creepers!" he exclaimed "You guys must be able to jump REALLY HIGH!" Vobble gave a large guffaw and proceeded to roll on the ground laughing at the thought of them jumping! But Freddy didn't know why Vobz was laughing and started to feel embarrassed. Vinky saw Freddy trembling and gave Vobble a good whack with her wing... "Knock it off, Vobz!" "Don't mind him," said Vinky, "he's not laughing at you! But we FLY! Watch!" and Vinky… took off. She did a couple of loop-di-loops and a twisting spiral and a high speed dive before she landed again on the hot tub railing. Freddy's eyes about popped out of his head. "Wowzerz! I wish I could do that." He leaped into the air and did a double twist before splashing into the water. "That was great. Vobble isn't much for water. We should team up. You catch us fish and we'll get the rats for you." "Sounds good, but we're not much for rats," Freddy said. "But we can get some of the best sea weed." "That would be great," said Zorro. "What a team we would make!" "Wow," said Vobble. "Let's have a circus! We can all do the things we do the best, and we can invite some of our other vriends too!" Vinky said, "What fun! It would be kind of like the times we went to the Owlympics, only this time everybody can be in it, with each doing what they do best." "Perfect," said Freddy. "I'm in, but I don't know anybody around here except you guys, so you'll have to do the inviting." So they all put their heads together and… soon they had a list of events—a high wire act (without the wire), a trapeze act (without the trapeze), target shooting (with flies for targets), and championship cheese eating. (Zorro added that last one.) Zorro chimed in again and said, "John can be our announcer and our photographer and our publicist and our lights and sounds guy. Well, maybe we'll skip the sounds. He can get kinda carried away there." Vobble piped up and said, "And CC can handle all our concessions! Just think of what she'll come up with!" Just then, the VacaChick came out on the deck to relax in the hot tub. Her screech was heard all the way to Soldano County. "JOOOOOHHHHHNNNNN! There's a huge green frog in the hot tub!!!! JOHHHHNNNN!!!!" The End |
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