FROGS, TOADS AND SOME GRAY-HAIRED LIES 447 



have arms and hands, so has the toad, only he has 

 got three of each." 

 To feed 



HIS COLLECTION OF TOADS 



the young circus manager had gathered grasshop- 

 pers, but they hopped out as fast as he put them in 

 the hole in front of the cellar window where he 

 kept his collection of hoptoads; his mother would 

 not allow him to destroy the sod by digging angle- 

 worms. Therefore he went to the grapevine in 

 the back yard, which he called his pasture; there 



HIS cows 



chewed the edges of the big, broad leaves all day 

 long and at night spread their light wings and 

 flew to other pastures to visit other cows. All his 

 stock looked alike ; they were of one color and one 

 size, yellow cows, with black spots on their backs 

 like two rows of buttons; wings were not the only 

 things these cows possessed that made them differ 

 from other cattle; these spotted animals each pos- 

 sessed 



six LEGS ! 



The little lad loved his coWs, but he could not 

 let the toads starve, spiders were hard to catch 

 and he did not like to touch them. In real circuses 

 they feed the animals on meat and what's meat but 

 cows cut up? So he gathered a handful of his 

 little spotted cattle and dropped them just in front 

 of his toads, and they were instantly swallowed. 



While a gentleman of Schenectady, New York, 



