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THE FROG AND TOAD. 
weed at this time. It has not any fins hke a fish, 
but it can swim very fast, for all that ! — for it wags 
its tail up and down, and from side to side, much 
as if it were a fin, and gets on in this way. It has 
a very odd look, a good deal like a dark pea, or a 
bead, with a flat tail ; but it is full of life, and wags 
up and down in the pond so fast that it is not easy 
for your eye to keep pace with it. In time its tail 
will drop off, and four legs will grow on it ; it will 
then not wish to stay in the pond, or to feed on 
duck weed any more, but will come out, and live, 
for the most part, on land, and will then eat ants, 
and such food, and be a real Frog. The eggs of 
the Frog, and of the Toad also, are laid in a kind 
of bag or sack. The Frog can hop a long way at 
each leap, for its size, and it has an odd cry. The 
Toad does not cry out so loud as the Frog, nor can 
it hop so well. The Frog and Toad are a good 
deal like when they are just out of the egg. The 
Toad is very fond of a dark, damp hole to live in, 
and it will live a very, very long time. As it eats 
the slug and worm, it does much good. 
