Arnold Lobel credited as playing...
Narrator
- Narrator: [as Frog sees Toad's unchanged calendar] Frog looked at Toad's calendar.
- Frog: [goes over to the calendar] November?
- Narrator: [as Frog tears off each calendar page one at a time] Frog tore off the November page. He tore off the December page, and the January page, the February page, and the March page.
- Frog: [sighs] It's only April now.
- [we hear a triangle tinging]
- Frog: Ohh...
- [turning back to the calendar to tear off the April page]
- Narrator: Frog tore off the April page, too.
- Narrator: [as Frog runs up the path to Toad's house; first line] It was a beautiful, bright morning as Frog ran up the path to Toad's house.
- Frog: Once upon a time--there were two good friends, a frog and a toad. The frog was not feeling well. He asked his friend, the toad, to tell him a story. So the toad walked up and down on the porch, but couldn't think of a story. He stood on his head, but he couldn't think of a story. He poured water over his head, but he couldn't think of a story. He banged his head against the wall, but he still could *not* think of a story. Then the toad did not feel so well, and--the frog was feeling better. So the toad went to bed, and the frog got up, and told him a story. The end. How was that, Toad? Uh, Toad?
- Narrator: Toad did not answer. He had fallen asleep.
- Narrator: [after Toad runs home and slams his door, frustrated at not finding his button until he sees his lost one on the floor, making him gasp] There, on the floor, he saw his white, four-holed, big, *round*, THICK--button.
- Toad: Ohhh, it was here all the time. My, what a lot of trouble I have made for Frog.
- Narrator: [as Toad sews the buttons he and Frog found on his jacket] Toad sewed the buttons they had found that day all over his jacket.