A frog on his own – Nov. 237th 2006 Andrew – EN Transcribed by Lisa Brunetti The little boy is going to the park. He’s with his dog, and in a pail he’s carrying his frog and his rabbit. # He enters the park, but as he’s walking in, the frog jumps out, and looks like the frog doesn’t want to go with the little boy wherever he’s going, he wants to go around the park on his own, have his own adventures. The frog stays behind, he waves goodbye to the little boy, and the boy doesn’t even know that the frog has left so he goes on without him. The frog has a good time in the park. He catches a fly and eats it, he catches a butterfly or maybe it’s a moth and eats it; he_ even tries to eat a bee, but that doesn’t go so well because the bee stings ‘m on his tongue and he has to let it go. Meanwhile, in another part of the park, ##### under a tree, in the shade with their picnic blanket and basket, the man’s pouring his wife a glass of, of of coffee maybe. And they’re having their lunch, they’re drinking coffee, they’re_ they’re just discussing what’s been happening in their lives and without them noticing at the frog creeping the the_ the picnic pail. And when_ when the wife goes in to REACH for something she feels the frog with her hand and it doesn’t feel like food, so she’s pretty surprised by the, by the touch of the of the frog. She r- she reaches her hand out of the basket and the frog is, is hanging on to her arm. Her husband is so shocked that he spills his coffee and loses his glasses. The frog knows that he’s not wanted so he runs away, meanwh- he runs away leaving the, the man and his wife yelling at him because they are so angry that he disrupted their lunch. Now the frog goes around to another part of the park where a little boy is playing with a toy sailboat while his mum watches him from a bench, they’re at hm the lake in the park. # While the little boy is playing with his sailboat the frog jumps onto the boat and sinks it. This makes the boy angry because, because it’s his boat and now it’s broken. He starts crying and his mother reaches, reaches down in the water to retrieve the boat which is sinking and now the frog swims away. So that’s the second, the second group of people whose day is ruined here at the park. The frog comes upon another group of people. This time, it’s a woman with her_ with a baby carriage and her baby is in the carriage, also their, their cat is with them. While the woman is reading a magazine, the frog jumps into the carriage and staggers the baby. Then the woman- - when the woman goes to feed the baby hm some milk from the bottle the frog opens his mouth and it just goes into the frog’s mouth, and the baby isn’t happy about this at all, because that’s supposed to be his milk. # Now the- - now the- - the woman, the mother notices that this frog is in the carriage and she recoils back in in surprise. The cat, the cat with his animal instincts, leaps up and decides to catch the frog, but the frog escapes. He perches on a on a trash can, but the cat still comes after him and finally the cat CATCHES the frog, the cat catches the frog and what’s he gonna do? well he doesn’t have a chance to_ to do anything to the frog because nearby is the little boy who OWNS the frog with his dog and he sends the dog to scare the cat away, so that the cat won’t harm his frog. Now the little- - now the little boy can take his frog and his, and his turtle and his dog and walk home