Willy and the Wogs - Introduction
(By Anna L. Mann)
What is a Wog, and where do they come from?
Now, we all know, if you stop to think about it, people like to think that they are just about the smartest creatures on earth. They like to pretend that they know just about everything about anything. Well... what about Wogs? What does anyone know about Wogs? Nothing. Absolutely nothing!
I will attempt to tell you a little something about Wogs. A little secret that I just happened to find out purely by accident. Now we all know what frogs are - and we have all learned that frogs, when they are babies, are not frogs at all. They are polliwogs. Polliwogs grow up to be frogs. Now that is a simple fact, and we all know that - or do we? Do we really know for a fact that ALL polliwogs grow up to be frogs? The simple fact is, in truth, that a very few, a special few, do not grow up to be frogs; but in fact grow up to be Wogs. So now you know my secret, and now it is our secret.
One very good reason that Wogs are so difficult to see, and hardly anyone has ever reported seeing them, is that they can change color at will! Yes, they do change color somewhat like the famous lizard known as the chameleon. The chameleon uses it's ability to change the color of it's entire body, so it will blend in with the tree branches, surrounding rocks, leaves, or grass where it lives, to hide from it's enemies.
Now, of course, a Wog is certainly not a lizard. Nobody really seems to know just exactly what a wog is, because nobody ever saw a Wog until on that warm spring day when Willy found himself hopelessly lost deep in the woods somewhere between the little red school house, and the little dirt farm where he lives with his mother and father.
It seems doubtful that the peaceful Wogs have any enemies, so why do they change color? Maybe, just maybe, someday we will find out. That is, if the Wogs ever let us know.
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