Il6 MY SUMMER IN A GARDEN. 



out of their holes in the dirt, by tens and twen 

 ties and fifties, to escape death by drowning. 

 The big ones fled away in a ridiculous streak of 

 hopping ; and the little ones sprang about in the 

 wildest confusion. The toad is just like any 

 other land animal : when his house is full of 

 water, he quits it. These facts, with the draw 

 ings of the water and the toads, are at the ser 

 vice of the distinguished scientists of Albany in 

 New York, who were so much impressed by the 

 Cardiff Giant. 



The domestic cow is another animal whose 

 ways I have a chance to study, and also to oblit 

 erate in the garden. One of my neighbors has 

 a cow, but no land ; and he seems desirous to 

 pasture her on the surface of the land of other 

 people : a very reasonable desire. The man 

 proposed that he should be allowed to cut the 

 grass from my grounds for his cow. I knew the 

 cow, having often had her in my garden ; knew 



