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" any juice from their pimples. Sometimes 

 " upon taking it up it would let out a great 

 " quantity of clear water, which, as I have 

 " often seen it do the same upon the steps 

 " when quite quiet, was certainly its urine, 

 " and no more than a natural evacuation. 



" Fourthly, A toad has no particular enmity 

 " for the spider ; he used to eat five or six with 

 " his millepedes (which I take to be its chief 

 " food) that I generally provided for it, before 

 " I found out that flesh maggots, by their con- 

 " tinual motion, was the most tempting bait; 

 " but when offered, it eat blowing flies and 

 " humble bees that come from the rat-tailed 

 " maggot in gutters, or in short any insect that 

 " moved. I imagine if a bee was to be put 

 " before a toad, it would certainly eat it to its 

 " cost ; but as bees are seldom stirring at the 

 " same time that toads are, they can seldom 

 " come in their way, as they seldom appear 

 " after sun-rising, or before sun-set. In the 

 " heat of the day they will come to the mouth 

 " of their hole, I believe, for air. I once from 

 " my parlour window observed a large toad I 

 " had in the bank of a bowling-green, about 

 " twelve at noon, a very hot day, very busy and 

 " active upon the grass ; so uncommon an ap- 

 " pearance made me go out to see what it was. 





