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who has a garden should raise his own toads. You should have some 

 sort of an artificial pond in which you can keep watered plants and into 

 which you may put a few eggs of the toad or a few tadpoles. A water- 

 tight tuh would he a good thing for this purpose. I have found that 

 tadpoles will feed on fish food and fresh meat. I always fasten the 

 meat to a bit of cork so that I can easily remove what the tadpoles do 

 not eat. In this way the water does not become foul. You will be 

 interested to watch the tadpoles hatch from the string of toad eggs with 

 which Junior Naturalists are now familiar, the long strings of gelatine- 

 like substance with the little, black, bead-like eggs in them. You can 

 find toad's eggs in almost any pool in the spring time. 



