CHAPTER V 



TOADS AND FROGS 



FROGS and toads are the most useful creatures 

 that we have in the garden, for they eat such 

 quantities of harmful grubs. They are not a 

 bit alike, but as some people are bothered to 

 know which is which, it is as well to remember 

 an easy way of telling them apart, and this is 

 that a frog takes long hops while a toad merely 

 walks. Once in a way the latter will take a 

 short feeble hop, a sort of half-hearted one, 

 but it is nothing to the flying leaps which a 

 frog manages with the greatest ease, and which 

 are its usual means of getting over the ground. 

 Compared with the toad the frog is a very 

 smart fellow ; he is daintily marked with browns, 

 buffs, and greeny-browns, the tints varying in 

 shade and depth of colour according to the 

 weather. The country people believe that 

 when the frogs are light in colour there is fine 

 weather coming, but I think the change is 

 brought about by the amount of moisture 



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