The Golly Wapasus - A beast with two fried eggs for eyes and an eliptical (canoe-shaped) body is the Golly Wapasus. He's very happy and kind when he's down-side-up and has a crew cut but very angry and grumbly when he's up-side-down and his hair is parted in the middle, because then he has a beard. He can't shave and he doesn't have to if his beard is already parted in the middle.
One day he ate some jumping beans, mistaking them for mashed potatoes. Then how he did hop! He didn't know whether he was sad or happy but he knew he was had! Or was it sappy? He couldn't tell because he was always bouncing around and jumping back and forth up-side-down and down-side-up like a pancake flopping on a griddle. He went smile, frown, smile, frown, smile, frown all over the forest. The animals looked at him, blinked their eyes, and said, "Golly Wapasus. I guess I'll have to go to Dr. Biggersnigie, my eyes are seeing bouncing creatures all over the place." And later that day, Dr. Biggersnigie had all the beasts of the forest at his den, begging to have their eyes checked. He held up his paws to quiet them and said, "You're eyes are perfectly good. I saw it too!"
To get back to the main subject, the Golly Wapasus. He kept bouncing until the jumping bean's jump wore off. Then he gave a sigh of relief and sat down, with his happy side up.
But he was always into some mischief or trouble and soon he was hungry. On the shelves of his celler, he had one can with the lable torn off. He opened it to find some thick, cold greenish stuff. One taste turned him over so that he made a sour face. It was something Dr. Biggersnugie had given to him 6 months ago, for cold ears.
But he soon forgot his hunger, and went off to search for something. He didn't know what it was he wanted, but he hoped it might be an adventure. It was. He found a mouse and scared an elephant with it, skined a live tiger and laughed at him shivering, made a silver bird with straight wings, and called it an airplane. Then he teased the bird by tiing it by a long string around himself and running with it so it flew in the air. This, he said, was kite-fling. He invented a thing-a-ma-bob that would make a whang-doodle work by connecting a thing-a-mee to the corner of the what-cha-ma-call-it three times around twice. He was delighted with it, and named it a telephone.
Next, he threw coconuts at the monkeys, and they threw him at the banana grove. Then he cried because he was hungry. So he climbed a tree and jumbed out, squashing a pumkin field. And Farmer Iligermanglepopingsnootch came out and shot him, so he ran away laughing heartily.
And that night, a happy cat slept in the Golly Wapasus's bed, while the G.W. slept on the floor for he didn't want to disturb the panther.
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