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Show scvitory, after DaCrnng its poor, cm leg in water and otherwise making much of it. The next day, after a very 6hort search, I found my invalid seated on a large stone in a small artificial pool of the rockery, and I gave him a worm, which, after some hesitation, I persuaded him to take. After this 3 p. m. every day found my toad on the same stone awaiting his dinner. Sometimes he would eat as many as six worms, one after another, first appearing not to see them, though all the time keenly alive to their presence, then, with a sudden start, glaring glar-ing at them with hunched up back and eager eyes for some moments, when the next instant snap, gulp the worm is gone, and the toad looking supremely innocent in-nocent of the whole affair. I had this toad for several months, but on returning return-ing home after a long absence I never saw him again. I have found it a good rule never to handle creatures I am trying try-ing to tame till they are thoroughly accustomed ac-customed to me. Much can be done with the voice and cupboard love. English En-glish Gardening Illustrated. tt Naming a Toad, -sued a very large toad a few years ; 81 rat trap in the garden and ' l0 on the rockec? of the con- |