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Tebott, Nov. 1, 1768. 
<¢ In refpeét to the queries I fhall 
here give the moft fatisfactory 
anfwers I am capable of. 
© Firft, I cannot fay how long 
my father had been acquainted 
with the toad before I knew it; 
but when I firft was acquainted 
with it, he ufed to mention it as 
the old toad I’ve known fo many 
years; 1 can anfwer for thirty- 
fix years. 
© Secondly, No toads that I ever 
faw appeared in the winter fea- 
fon. The old toad made its ap- 
pearance as foon as the warm wea- 
ther cate, and I always concluded 
it retired to fome dry bank to 
repofe till the fpring. Whenwe 
new-lay’d the fteps I had two 
holes made in the third ftep on 
each, with a hollow of more than 
a yard lone for it, in which I 
imagine it flept, as it came from 
thence at its firft appearance. 
“ Thirdly, It was feldom pro- 
voked: neither that toad (nor the 
multitudes I have feen tormented 
with gteat cruelty) ever fhewed 
the left defire of revenge, by 
{pitting or emitting any juice 
from their pimples, Sometimes 
** upon 
