Frog Wrestling is Not an Approved Sport

Like I told you earlier, Lina learned a thing or two about wrestling by watching Karl try to get away from Tom. Once Karl knew Tom was a friend he wrapped his arms around his neck and let him carry him.  But later that night, while everybody was eating supper, Lina was kidnapped right off the windowsill.  She was sitting with Adar, the swallow, and all of a sudden she was snatched. Lina didn't have much chance to resist at first, it was so sudden.  But later, when Croadine, the evil frog, wanted Lina out of the way while she fixed up the muddy room she wanted Lina to live in as the bride of her son, Lina put up a good fight.  Croadine wanted to set her out in the middle of the pond on a lily pad.  She wrapped her long tongue around Lina and started to swim out to the lily pads.  Lina thought about how silly that must look and started to laugh.  That tickled the frog's throat and she started to cough.  At first Lina was scared because she thought the frog would drop her and Lina didn't think she could swim.  But Croadine just wrapped her tongue around Lina a bit more tightly and kept on swimming.  But when they reached the lily pads they got into quite a tussle.  At first Lina just wanted to reach into the water to wash off because she felt yucky from being in Croadine's mouth.  But Croadine though she was trying to swim away so she grabbed her again.  Lina did things like flipping around and changing the way she held her arms and legs.  She even tried to get Croadine's long tongue tied in a knot.  But then Croadine did something that Lina thought was super yucky.  It was unfair I think.  Croadine hacked up a bunch of sticky frog phlegm and glued Lina to the lily pad.  In sportsmanlike wrestling one of the wrestlers gets pinned to the mat.  Lina got glued to it.  But it all worked out in the end.  Croadine swam away and before she returned the fish rescued Lina.  They splashed water on Lina to loosen the goo and then chewed the stem of the lily pad so it could be a boat to carry Lina away from the pond. She had more adventures, of course, but she never had to wrestle a frog again.  Let's hear it for good sportsmanship.  Buzz you later, Delbert the bee.