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She thought the chimneys were full of soot, and didn't believe the kitchen stove would ever draw; she was sure that there were dead toads and frogs in the well; the house was inconvenient and always would be till water was brought into the kitchen sink; Julia seemed to have no leaning towards housework and had an appetite that she could only describe as a crime, inasmuch as the wherewithal to satisfy it had to be purchased by others; the climate was damp because of the river, and there was no proper market within eight miles; Kathleen was too delicate to live in such a place, and the move from Charlestown was an utter and absolute and entire mistake from A to Z.
Tony could hardly help shouting at the idea; but, rather than trouble his little mistress, he said very soberly: "I'm afraid they wouldn't lay easy, not being used to it. Tucking up a butterfly would about kill him; the worms would be apt to get lost among the bed-clothes; and the toads would tumble out the first thing." "I shall have to ask mamma about it.
My mind was at first somewhat disturbed by the discovery of one or two enormous toads and long-armed spiders in my apartment; but they fortunately did not interfere with my repose, for I slept like a top. All the rooms being on the ground-floor, it is almost impossible entirely to exclude intruders of this description.
Or could it be a beetle? My whole life long I have had an antipathy to beetles, of any sort or kind. I have objected neither to rats nor mice, nor cows, nor bulls, nor snakes, nor spiders, nor toads, nor lizards, nor any of the thousand and one other creatures, animate or otherwise, to which so many people have a rooted, and, apparently, illogical dislike. My pet and only horror has been beetles.
"The old way adding to all the old mummeries of the most mumming of all professions medicine! That dates back to bats' wings and toads' livers as cure for the spleen. But at least and at last he said it was iritis?" "Yes. He told me that I might gradually lose one eye which was true. He thought the trouble might advance to the other eye. It came out that way. He must have known."
At the age of fourteen her appetite became normal. In the older writings many curious instances of abnormal appetite are seen. Borellus speaks of individuals swallowing stones, horns, serpents, and toads. Plater mentions snail-eating and eel-eating, two customs still extant. Rhodius is accredited with seeing persons who swallowed spiders and scorpions.
Boris!" and feel that queer flaming heat in her blood which gave her courage to undertake anything. In the orchard the strawberry-beds, the gooseberry and currant bushes, were gray and glittering with dew, and from the kitchen garden the pot-herbs sent over their powerful odors; on the gravel paths dreaming toads were squatting.
William! what could you do for a man if he was your friend? no, I mean, if he was your enemy? Col. G. I daren't say, sir. Ger. Is the sun shining? Col. G. Yes, sir. It's a lovely day. Ger. What a desert the sky is! so dreary and wide and waste! Ah! if I might but creep into a hole in a tree, and feel it closing about me! How comfortable those toads must feel! Col. He's getting light-headed again!
'Why, we want you to allow the captives to parade in the evening, with torch-lights and mottoes. 'All right! cried Dicky, kindling in an instant; ''n' Luby, 'n' the doat, 'n' my horn' toads, all e'cept the one that just gotted away in Laura's bed; but may be she'll find him to-night, so they'll be all there.
These markings have given to each its specific name. They are farther distinguished, by the forehead of the white-lipped peccary being more hollowed or concave than that of its congener. In most other respects these creatures are alike. Both feed upon roots, fruits, frogs, toads, lizards, and snakes.
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