450 DAN BEARD'S ANIMAL BOOK 



cernible upon its shell. We all know that it is 

 reported that Daniel Boone was much given to 

 carving his name, and il is not improbable that 

 the old hunter himself put the name and date 

 on this tortoise. At any rate the old tortoise has 

 been found so many times within a mile of the 

 place where it was first discovered, that it is evi- 

 dent that the tortoise is not given to wandering, 

 that it is not a very young specimen now, and that 

 it bids fair to outlive the human inhabitants at the 

 present time residing in its neighborhood. 



The accompanying colored plate is a leaf from 

 my sketch book and represents a Pike County toad. 



It is a red toad, and Pliny says that a bone from 

 the right side of a red toad administered to a per- 

 son will make them hate you; but a bone taken 

 from the left side will instil into the person to 

 whom it is administered most ardent love. The 

 reader, however, need not worry. I am not going 

 to administer either of these bones to him, for I 

 would not sacrifice the life of the toad to gain the 

 reader's enmity and I will trust to luck to gain his 

 affections. 



This particular toad lives under the door-sill of 

 the gallery to my log house. He is there yet, and 

 has been there for a number of years. In the even- 

 ing he comes out and hops around the kitchen door 

 and catches the insects that are attracted by the 

 crumbs swept from the kitchen floor. 



HE IS A TEMPERATE TOAD, 

 of good habits and well behaved, but I am sorry 



