He motioned to me to keep still, because he was stalking a hop-toad.

When this boy took a seat, a young girl read some verses that she had clipped from a newspaper: "Don't kill the toads, the ugly toads, That hop around your door; Each meal the little toad doth eat A hundred bugs or more.

Dummling, though rather surprised when he saw the toads, and heard them question him, being good-hearted replied politely "I am desirous to obtain the most splendid carpet in the world; just now it would be extremely useful to me.

A few score years ago, sick people were made to swallow burnt toads and powdered earth-worms and the expressed juice of wood-lice.

I have no doubt that if I should catch an old toad, put on to her a short gown and petticoat and one of my caps, everybody would walk up to her and say, "Oh, how do you do, Mrs. Prentiss, you look more like yourself than common; I recognise the picture you have drawn of yourself in Stepping Heavenward and in the Percys," etc., etc., etc., ad nauseam.

Whether in florid impotence he speaks, And, as the prompter breathes, the puppet squeaks; Or at the ear of Eve, familiar toad.

I smite the ox and crush the toad in death: I only know I am so very fair, And that the world was made to give me breath.

I must not forget my horned toad, Diego, that I got in California.

Then he gave the poor toad, With his warm nose a dump, And he woke and got off With a hop and jump.

"Nothing but slugs and evats!Toads, too,hang the toads!

They also brought countless valuable presents, among which were two huge eggs, which the giants said were priceless, as from them could be hatched magic toads with lodestones in their foreheads.

But there's another rival in her loveone Sophos; and he's a scholar, one whom I think fair Lelia dearly loves, but her father hates him as he hates a toad; for he's in want, and Gripe gapes after gold, and still relies upon the old-said saw, Si nihil attuleris, &c. ROBIN GOODFELLOW.

"Horrid little pretentious toad!"

Now, this is a performance of genuine and grotesque humour, which it is worth keeping a toad to see.

"Inform on me if you dare," she said, "or utter such an opinion to papa, and I will make you and your baby both suffer for it, and that lame hop-toad too, who follows you everywhere like your shadow!

the infuriated listener cried; 'you lying toad!'

Well, the Little Playmate lifted a toad from her waistI mean my handand dropped it as far from her as her arm would reach.

And listenhear the toads?" "Is that what they are?

Miss Stapylton answered, with utmost unconcern; "I would sooner marry a toad.

" Whereupon, thinking better to please the churchwoman, he related how, when imprisoned for popping a toad into the soup, he had escaped over the leads, and had beaten a drum outside the barn, during a discourse of the godly tinker, John Bunyan, tramping and rattling so that all thought the troopers were come, and rushed out, tumbling one over the other, while he yelled out his "Ho! ho! ho!" from the haystack where he had hidden.

Then I sat down by father and watched the three boys together, while Richard was preventing his guest from pounding a toad with a stone because it preferred to hop away instead of being made into a dirt pie, and I saw the truth of what he said.

You'd betther ask me to love a to'd" for so Michael would pronounce the word 'toad.'

In taking leave of the spot, I could not repress a wish to see it under a different aspect, although it required very slight aid from fancy to picture it as it would appear in the rains, with mildew in the drip of those pendant palm branches, green stagnant pools in every hollow, toads crawling over the garden paths, and snakes lurking beneath every stone.

A boy said that he had gotten a pot of paint, and painted in large letters on the fences around his father's farm: "Spare the toads, don't kill the birds.

" "Excellent creature!" murmured Aunt Maria, surveying the old toad with warm sympathy.