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Show DADDY5 EVENING R3 FAIRYTALE fyHABY GRAHAM BONNER THE TOADS "We don't get to work as ipilckly as the Frogs do, eh?" asked Tillle Toad. "No," said Teeny 1 Toad, "we don't. Pi, We lay our eggs -A'?'-? very much later Jyv than frogs do. And Ji jA-ii. we n"ve (n,r own t3 Aj$p ways of doing ?-lhV- things." 4? "So much better jBj4o than copying oth- .11 ers," said Tillle ? $MJ4 Ton1- pjildi nice sltlf,l,?" !sl;l(1 (Vj.ojj1 Teeny Toad. Q s,,w Til" -a-il lle Toa,i. "How : ; ' about you?" . That Dear Little "I had a nice Toad. sleep too," said Teeny Toad. "And now I mil anxious to go Into the gardens gar-dens and to drive away all the naughty naugh-ty bugs and Insects which hurt the gardens and the flowers." "I hope folks know we love their gardens and help them a great deal," said Tlllie Toad. "They are finding it out," said Teeny Toad. "I know that in the garden where I go the lady who owns the garden always says : " 'Oh, I am" so glad to see that dear little toad. The toads always help me with my garden and drive away tin; little creatures who do It harm.'" "Yes," said Tillle Toad, "we do help, and we drive away the little creatures so they will never come back." "That's so," said Teeny Toad, "we swallow them, we do ! The very best way of getting rid of them." And the two toads squeaked and grunted and said : ' "We hope folks wilF'f now bow much we want to help and will be good to us and not hurt us because we're not beautiful." i Now the toads laid their eggs in strings and the toad tadpoles were darker than the frogs. They had slender tails and larger bodies than frogs and were very proud of themselves them-selves because they were so different. "I think we are something like an old snying," said Teeny Toad. "What old saying?" asked T.'Ilie Toad. "There is an old saying." said Teeny Toad, "which goes something like this. I mean the words go something like this : " 'Handsome is that handsome does.' " "I never heard of that saying." said Tillie Toad. "Do you know what it means?" "I do," squeaked Teeny Toad. "Then won't you explain it to me?" "I will gladly," said Teeny Toad. "I am waiting to hear it," said Tillie Toad. "I wi.. keep you waiting no longer," said Topny Toad. "That is good." said Tillie Toad. "When it is said of a creature that he or she is handsome it is very nice indeed, because it means that that creature is beautiful. "It is fine to be beautiful if one can be beautiful. But everyone Is not born beautiful and everyone doesn't add beauty like some add height and size and fatness. "Now I think there must have been some people at some time who thought thtit all they had to do was to look beautiful and to be admired, for there roust have been some reason for saying that saying in the first place." "There must have been," agreed Tillie Til-lie Toad. "Well," continued Teeny Toad, "I think that there must have been some other creatures who were not beautiful beauti-ful but who did a great deal of good. "And so to make the people who were handsome and who did nothing ashamed of themselves, and in order to make those who were not handsome glad that they were useful and nice, they started the saying which I've just told to you. "Now we aren't handsome, but we do handsome work. We destroy bad Insects pvl germs which would hurt the gardens and so . we how folks will p-j love us and will piO 1 know that we do aT J' our besit handsome sj j"v 5 work s:ll the time I L to make up for not S i being handsome ourselves." "Yes," said Tillie V vST Toad, "I think that saying fits us per- yxH fectly and now let c lv . us live up to it and - t? see what handsome work we can do ' je today to help peo- ? ttr. pie with their gar- dens." "Handsome Is as So Tillie Toad Handsome Does." and Teeny Toad went off to do their work for the grown-ups and the children who owned and loved their gardens. . |