Seth and the speed boat

There once was a frog named Seth, who owned a speed-boat. I don’t know why, everyone knows frogs can float, but this frog was impatient and swimming was much too slow. The other frogs said, “Hey Seth, what’s the big rush, where are you in such a hurry to go”? He just said “ribit” and hit the gas, catching flies with his tongue as they flew past. All of the other frogs just shook their heads, all of the babies, mommies and dads, sitting upon their Lily-pads. Seth’s little sister, Lilly sat upon her Lily-pad and the waves Seth was making made Lilly mad. Lilly asked Seth to please stop making waves for heaven-sake, but he just laughed as he flew by never touching the brake. Lilly yelled to Seth “frogs shouldn’t go so fast,” but Seth just waved as his boat flew past.

            Seth heard a Robin starting to sing, so Seth challenged her to a race and beat her by a wing. Seth also raced a dragon fly. Wouldn’t you know, that race ended up in a tie? Seth raced bumble bees, honey bees and a furry rabbit with fleas. He just couldn’t be beat. He just grinned and grinned, his speed boat was so sweet. “Who wants to race me, who can I beat, I don’t care if you have two, four, six or even eight feet?” Seth was the fastest frog on the lake, there wasn’t any race he wouldn’t take. One time Seth ran over a big water-snake, he laughed and laughed as he sailed through the air. The snake was mad and cried “hey, that’s not fair!”

Everyone was mad but Seth didn’t care, Seth was doing something no other frog would dare.  Lilly said “showing off may be fun to do, but it can get you in a lot of trouble too”. Seth just stuck his tongue out at Lilly and said “ooh I’m so scared, will I bump my head”?  Just as as Seth said that, Chris the Catfish appeared and swallowed Seth and his speed-boat just as Lilly had feared. Lilly cried “Seth, oh Seth, where have you gone”? But Seth and his speed-boat were nowhere to be seen. That big old catfish sure was mean. Getting swallowed by a catfish can put you in a bad mood; Seth jumped up and down and yelled “hey, I’m not catfish food!” When Chris the Catfish opened his mouth to burp, Seth swam out lick-it-y-split, hoping and praying that he wouldn’t get bit.

Seth swam to the surface and took a deep breath. Lilly was searching and when she saw Seth she said “you naughty frog, you scared me to death!” Seth said he was sorry and he would slow down, he sat on Lilly’s lily-pad with a big frown. With no more speed-boat to make him go fast, Seth swam like the other frogs and they all had a big blast. Seth finally realized at last that frogs’ shouldn’t go that fast, (Even though it was a blast!)

 The End.

R.F.Sorrell

3/28/2014