MR. CHUPES AND MISS JENNY 



movement of the broad mouth, and at the 

 same time you perhaps missed a fly or some 

 other insect that had been venturing too 

 near Mr. Wartyback; but of the transaction 

 proper you had not an inkling. I used 

 sometimes to imagine that the goggle eye 

 nearest me winked, and that the wide 

 mouth had the semblance of a grin after a 

 successful haul, but I must have been mis- 

 taken; for surely no creature of such sang 

 froid as a toad could have indulged in so 

 frivolous an action. 



Through my intimacy with this specimen 

 I was enabled to alleviate the sufferings of 

 several relatives of his victims of lawn- 

 mower accidents. But as a rule, the kindest 

 service one can render in such cases is to 

 put the maimed creature out of the way as 

 quickly as possible. 



I will ask you to note that in each of the 

 instances of discovery I have mentioned, we 

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