In the case of the frog this may be due largely to the animal's headlong and harlequin-like character, but the toad is a steady personage, whose solemnity of deportment, not to speak of his stoutness, entitles him to high consideration in a world where grave dulness and personal circumference always attract reverence.

Tio! SECOND TOAD His solitary idea is an old silver trill copied from the bubbling spring.

Bul-bul! THE BIG TOAD This is the way he goes on: [Parodying the song of the NIGHTINGALE.] Tio!

THE BIG TOAD That formula is a programme.

I think two toads and a small and harmless snake were the only living creatures that had been discovered during the whole of the first fortnight.

Powdered toad held in the palm is a fine thing to stop the nose bleedingor, at any rate, it was a couple of hundred years ago, according to a dear old almanac I have.

And these two toads in all probability were not two toads, but one toad.