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legs or arms, and two 

 hind legs; one of its arms 

 was rather thin but it was 

 an arm, with all the bones 

 and joints of the other 

 arms, including a well de- 

 fined hand. 



All were satisfied with 

 the show and went away 

 conscious that they had 

 had their money's worth ; 

 as for the showman, his 

 blue roundabout fairly 

 glistened, like a new 

 paper of pins, with the 



FIVE LEGGED FROG. , , , 



wealth taken in at the 



door; over and over he explained to the 

 audience that the slenderness of the third 

 arm was on account of the lack of use because, the 

 young showman confidently asserted, "Pa says 

 that if I cut off one of the other arms then the toad 

 will have to use the thin arm and it will grow big 

 like the ones he uses now." 



Then the showman would point out the elbow 

 and hand and show how it corresponded not only 

 with the toad's 



TWO OTHER ARMS AND HANDS, 



but also with the arms and hands of the showman 

 himself -and the spectators. "You see," he would 

 continue, "you have a head, so has the toad; you 



