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And right then and there began a dispute which they have kept up ever since: whether it was best to go out into the Great World or remain in the home of childhood. Each was sure that what he had done was best, and each is sure of it to this day. So whenever old Mr. Toad visits Grandfather Frog, as he does every once in a while, they are sure to argue and argue on this same old subject.
He watched them till his giddy head would bear it no longer, and he closed his eyes and slept. When he awoke he was much better, but when he raised himself and turned towards the stone there, by the bread and the broken pitcher, sat a dirty, ugly, wrinkled toad gazing at him, Monsieur the Viscount, with eyes of yellow fire.
"You may have it, David; you may have it." "Now it's your turn!" David would instruct him. "Must I take something in this window?" Dr. Lavendar would plead. And David always said firmly that he must. "Well, then, that's mine," Dr. Lavendar would say. "Why, that's only a teacup! We have thousands of them at our house!" David boasted. "I should think you would rather have the toad.
All these "Saurians" are believed to have frequented the sea or rivers; but another called the Great-lizard, was a land-animal, as was the Forest-lizard, and a monster kind of Toad with very curiously formed teeth.
The Toad was simply wild with jealousy, more especially as he couldn't make out for the life of him what the Mole had done that was so particularly clever; but, fortunately for him, before he could show temper or expose himself to the Badger's sarcasm, the bell rang for luncheon.
Soon nothing was heard ... a sob ... and all died away in the dense shade. The startled cricket was silent, and it alone might have counted the sighs, while in the neighbouring ditch the toad unwearied continued its love-song. "If you have done wrong, rebuke yourself sharply: If you have done well, have satisfaction." Marcel reached the parsonage without hindrance. Veronica had not yet returned.
"No; not to me or to any one else." "I thought I'd put a small toad just inside the teapot for James when he was going to make the tea this afternoon, for it would jump up and finish that affair of the wasps and spiders that occurred this morning." "You are not to do it. It is ridiculous; there's neither sense nor fun nor anything else in it. It is downright, positive cruelty.
He took Toad firmly by the arm, led him into the smoking-room, and closed the door behind them. "That's no good!" said the Rat contemptuously. "Talking to Toad'll never cure him. He'll say anything." They made themselves comfortable in arm-chairs and waited patiently.
God, I'll never forget that night! He sat there, fat and oily, two big rings on his stubby fingers a monstrous toad in human form and he chuckled and laughed at me in his joy, as though I were a mountebank playing amusing tricks for him and there my soul was bleeding itself out before his eyes! And his son came in, fat and oily and accursed like his father, and HE laughed at me.
Why didn't they adopt it themselves? The toad beneath the harrow knows Exactly where each tooth-point goes. The butterfly upon the road Preaches contentment to the toad. I wasn't anxious to patronize the dull kind of tame nobility of the toad; I longed for a few of the triumphs of the butterfly, decried though they are as hollow bubbles.
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