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"I saw something I thought was a potato, and it jumped away from me. It was a hoptoad." "That was funny," said Squealer. "I wish I had seen it. Did anything else happen?" "Yes," said Squinty. "I thought I saw another potato, but when I bit on it I found it was only a stone, and it hurt my teeth." "That's too bad," said Wuff-Wuff. "I am glad that did not happen to me. Tell us what else you saw."
The hoptoad was floor manager; the green burdock badge on his breast showed that. "Mind where you go don't jostle each other," cried the hoptoad, for he was an exceedingly methodical fellow, despite his habit of jumping at conclusions.
“Wouldn’t it be just as well if I pretended to walk behind you, and still stayed up front here, beside you?” asked Bawly, looking behind him. “Oh, I guess so,” answered his brother. So the two frog boys, who looked just like Indians, went on side by side though the woods. They looked all around them for something to capture, but all that they saw was an old lady hoptoad, going home from market.
One day we were sittin' out in the front yard of his house it's mine, now watchin' a hoptoad catch flies. You've seen a toad catch flies, haven't you, Mr. Fosdick? Mr. Toad sits there, lookin' half asleep and as pious and demure as a pickpocket at camp-meetin', until a fly comes along and gets too near. Then, Zip! out shoots about six inches of toad tongue and that fly's been asked in to dinner.
It has been such a pleasant time for me, this little talk with you. Some day, perhaps you will let me come again. Meanwhile, you really will be thinking over some of the things I've said?" "Very likely," Reed answered rather shortly, as once more the hoptoad of a hand rested unpleasantly close to his shoulder. "It's not a thing one is likely to forget." "I am so glad.
According to one who knows him well, the Cat's-eye buries itself far underground, and sleeps days, or weeks, perhaps years at a time. Once a grave-digger found a Cat's-eye three feet two inches down in the earth with no way out. How and when are we then to find this strange creature? Only during his noisy honeymoon in April. Do you know the soft trilling whistle of the common Hoptoad in May?
It is much like a common Toad, but a little smoother, the digging spade on its hind foot is bigger and its eye, its beautiful gold-stone eye, has the pupil up and down like that of a Cat, instead of level as in its cousin, the warty Hoptoad.
"I get you, Mr. Bangs. The old lid blew out to sea and we've got to get a new one. Say, that was funny, wasn't it; that hat goin' that way? I don't know's I ever laughed more in my life. One minute she was jumpin' along amongst them gravestones like a hoptoad with wings, and then Zing! Fsst! away she went a half mile or so down into the breakers. Haw, haw, haw! And to see your face! Why "
Now in the next story, if the cook doesn't burn the potatoes and make stove blacking of them I'll be able to tell you about Brighteyes Pigg and Mrs. Hoptoad. After Buddy had taken that funny ride down hill, inside the head of cabbage, his father said to him: "Buddy, come here, and let me look at you.
He looked all around, but he couldn't see any one, and he wondered if perhaps there were fairies about. Then he heard a voice say: "Now, children, hop just as I do. Take a long breath and then hop, and be very careful where you go." Then Uncle Wiggily looked down in the grass, and he saw a mamma hoptoad and a whole lot of her little toads hopping along.
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