Oh, I am the cook and the captain bold 

 And the mate of the Nancy brig, 



The bo'sn tight and the midshipmite 

 And the crew of the captain's gig. 



For every pollywog represented in his proper 

 person some hundred or more of his fellow- 

 pollywogs that he had eaten in the course of 

 his development. But long before that time 

 the toads had left the pond, scattering to the 

 four winds whence they had come, caring not 

 now what became of their offspring. It was 

 then that K'dunk the Fat One came back to 

 the portulaca bed. 



Mrs. James found him there the next 

 morning a big, warty gray toad with a 

 broad grin and a fat belly and an eye like 

 a jewel blinking sleepily after his night's 

 hunting. " Mercy ! there 's that awful toad 

 again. I hope " with a cautious glance 

 all round "I hope he hasn't brought the 

 turtle with him." She gave him a prod and 

 a flip with the trowel to get him out of the 

 flower bed, whereupon K'dunk scrambled 

 into his hole under an overhanging sod and 

 refused to come out, spite of tentative pokes 



