There was once a yellow green frog who vacationed at the bottom of the garden of a rambling old house in the country. He was large and had been a famous jumper in his day, until he was caught by a young girl and taken on all sorts of adventures. This made him feel quite well traveled and wise and gave him a sense of fashion.
Lula was sitting on a flat rock in shade surrounded by the contents of her back pack The frog was sitting on a glossy magazine page with pictures of smiling girls with huge eyes and long hair on one side and an ad that said " Glory Manes, your solution to hair loss!!!" on the other. Rupert (for that was the frog's name) thought "Oh,I have hair loss! " I must find a wig" he croaked to himself.
Lula looked up from her game, saw him sitting on the magazine and said laughing
"Rup what are you doing? Reading again?" She scooped him up and put him down in the house she was building for him next to a mossy rock near a pool of water, it was furnished with doll furniture collected from many different toys, some large some small. She set him down on a light green lawn chair next to Francie, a doll with large collection of clothes. Today Francie wore tan shorts, doc martin boots and a t shirt that said Save The Planet. Next to her on a flat rock where several glossy wigs. One was long and streaked with blonde, the next short and dark with bangs, the third was a purple mohawk. Rupert watched as Lula took a fourth wig with gold braids and put it on Francie's head. She searched thought a pocket in the back pack and pulled out a small blue cap and put it on the dolls head.
Watching a small fly out of the corner of his eye Rupert quickly flicked his tongue out, snapped it up it and croaked happily. "Good job!" Lula said "I 'm going to get you some meal worms and fruit" and off she ran.
Rupert hopped off the chair and over to the flat rock, it was mossy and warm. He looked at the streaked wig decided it didn't go with his skin tone and decided to try on the one with bangs first. He stuck his nose under the back of the wig and lifted it up pushing it back with one webbed foot, it settled with the bangs slightly over one eye. Lula had made a mirror for Francie out of a piece of mirror with purple duct tape around the edges she'd topped it with paper flowers he hopped over carefully and looked at himself. (to be continued)
