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 



