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A few steps farther on he caught another Pollywog. Then coming to a spot that suited him, he once more waded in and began to watch for fish. Peter was suddenly reminded of Rattles the Kingfisher, whom he had quite forgotten. From the Big Hickory-tree on the bank, Rattles flew out over the Smiling Pool, hovered for an instant, then plunged down head-first.
In short, you do not open the business till you have had your tea or your coffee. You have taken it into your head, for instance, to send your son to school. All fathers are hypocrites and are never willing to confess that their own flesh and blood is very troublesome when it walks about on two legs, lays its dare-devil hands on everything, and is everywhere at once like a frisky pollywog.
That puzzled Peter more than anything he had seen in a long time. "Why, I couldn't do that!" he exclaimed right out loud. "Do what?" demanded Jerry Muskrat, who happened along just then. "Why, grow a new tail like that pollywog," replied Peter, and told Jerry all that he had seen. Jerry laughed. "You'll see queerer things than that if you watch those pollywogs long enough," said he.
"One of you boys may escape, even if the ship does go down," said the professor, gravely: "If any of us should get back to civilization I want the world to know that the Patagonians are not a friendly race, and that I died hoping to capture the fur-bearing pollywog of the South Polar seas."
In short, you do not open the business till you have had your tea or your coffee. You have taken it into your head, for instance, to send your son to school. All fathers are hypocrites and are never willing to confess that their own flesh and blood is very troublesome when it walks about on two legs, lays its dare-devil hands on everything, and is everywhere at once like a frisky pollywog.
Once I saw him fishing in a peculiar way, which reminded me instantly of the chumming process with which every mackerel fisherman on the coast is familiar. He caught a pollywog for bait, with which he waded to a deep, cool place under a shady bank. There he whacked his pollywog into small bits and tossed them into the water, where the chum speedily brought a shoal of little fish to feed.
Toad is slow, but there is nothing slow about his children. Look at that little fellow over there; he's begun to grow legs already." Peter looked, and sure enough there was a pollywog with a pair of legs sprouting out. They were his fore legs, and they certainly did make him look funny. And only a few days before there hadn't been a sign of legs. "My gracious!" exclaimed Peter.
"Excuse me, I always sit down to watch a tadpole." "Yet I have seen you poised on one leg for an hour like a heron, afraid to put down the other foot lest you should scare some wretched pollywog. Why?" "I do it for the love of the thing, Dick. What is a page of your crooked signs compared with a single green pond and all that it holds?" "By Jove!
"What a hole!" said the passenger, a studious-looking young man, with an entomologist's tin collecting-box slung over his shoulders. The driver drew a long breath, moistened his lips, and said in a cool and aggravatingly deliberate fashion: "That air blamed pollywog puddle sold las' week fer tew thaousand." "Dollars?" asked the young man.
In short, you do not open the business till you have had your tea or your coffee. You have taken it into your head, for instance, to send your son to school. All fathers are hypocrites and are never willing to confess that their own flesh and blood is very troublesome when it walks about on two legs, lays its dare-devil hands on everything, and is everywhere at once like a frisky pollywog.
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