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upon taking it up it would let out 
a great quantity of clear water, 
which, as I have often feen it do the 
fame upon the fteps when quite 
quiet, was certainly its urine, and 
no more than a natural evacuation. 
“ Fourthly, A toad has no particu- 
lar enmity for the fpider; he ufed 
to eat five or fix with his millepides 
(which I take to be its chief food) 
that I generally provided for it, be- 
fore I found out that flefh maggots, 
by their continual motion, was the 
moft tempting bait; but when of- 
fered it eat blowing flies and hum- 
ble bees that come from the rat- 
tailed maggot in gutters, or in fhort 
any infect that moved. I imagine if 
a bee was to be put before a toad, 
it would certainly eat it to its coft; 
but as bees are feldom ftirring at 
the fame time that toads are, they 
can feldom come in their way, as 
they feldom appear after fun-rifing, 
or before fun-fet. 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 obferved 
a large toad I had in the bank of 
a bowling-ereen, about twelve at 
noon, a very hot day, very bufy and 
active upon the grafs ; fo uncom- 
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