FROG
ON A
LOG
IN A
BOG

There once was a frog

who lived in a bog.

The frog rode around

on a jet-rocket log.

There was no faster

frog in the bog.

But then one day

while riding its log

the frog looked up

and saw a dog.

The dog

was riding

a jet-rocket cog.

‘My cog is faster

than your boggy old log,’

said the dog on a cog

to the frog on a log.

‘My log is faster

than your rusty old cog,’

said the frog on a log

to the dog on a cog.

‘We’ll see about that!’

said the dog on a cog.

‘I challenge you, frog,

to a race round the bog!’

‘I agree!’ said the frog.

‘It’s you and your cog

versus me and my log ...

and I’m going

to beat you,

Dog-on-a-cog.’

But just then

along came

the boss

of the bog:

a big fat hairy

slob of a hog.

‘STOP!’ said the hog
to the dog and the frog.
‘Racing is NOT
allowed in my bog!
Not on a log!
Not on a cog!
No log-racing frogs!
No cog-racing dogs!
Do you hear me,
Frog-on-a-log?
Do you hear me,
Dog-on-a-cog?’

But the dog and the frog

just laughed at the hog—

and took off at high speed

around the bog.

The frog on a log

got in front of the dog!

Then the dog on a cog

got in front of the frog!

The frog raced its log

and the dog raced its cog

around

and around

and around the bog

until ...

up ahead

they saw the hog

standing on top of a

wall made of logs!

‘Stop!’ cried the hog.

‘Stop, dog!

Stop, frog!

Stop this race around my bog!’

‘But we’re going too fast!’

cried the frog on a log.

‘We CANNOT stop!’

cried the dog on a cog.

Into the air flew the dog and the frog.

Into the air flew the log and the cog.

Into the air flew the hog and his logs.

And then

down came the dog

on top of the cog!

Down came the frog

on top of the dog!

And last of all

down came the hog—

right on top of

the frog’s

rocket log!

‘Hey, this is fun!’

said the log-riding hog

as he rode the frog’s log

past the dog and the frog.

‘I’m the fastest hog on a log in the bog!

Try to catch me, dog and frog!

Try to catch me on the cog!’

‘Okay!’ said the frog.

‘It’s you on the log

versus us on the cog,

and we’re going

to beat you,

Hog-on-a-log.’

And so the dog and the frog

on the jet-rocket cog

spent the rest of the day

racing the hog ...

around

and around

and around the bog.