Show Little Amphibian Has Strong Homing Instinct Like the Proverbial Cat He He Will Come Back to to His Fixed Abode It If There Is Any Possibility of ot otHis His Doing It It When I n a boy lIo- down on Cape Cod COil writes n It friend of the Compan Companion ion Ism I 1 remember my mv mother scraping the Ilse side of a n toad with Uh her hoe hoc while working In the garden The rule next mother noticed there was n a large scab In In the toads toad's side It made her nervous nervous nerv nerv- ous OtiS to look nt at It find and she blie ked asked me to put the toad In a n box and carry it away I carried the toad a distance of throe three miles Into the woods and dropped him He lie Hc was back In our garden gar nr- nr lIen den the very next day and although 1 repented repeated the performance three times tines It hopped hack every ery time Finally Fi FI- nally mother said not hot to bother other him for the scab was healing I 1 never pave gave that a n second thought until I happened to he be stud studying ln under Professor Sharp nt at Boston university ers when to Illustrate n a point to the class he ho skid that toads like carrier pigeons posse possessed sed the homing Instinct then 1 I thought lIt of the toad that mother had lied asked me rue meto to carr carry away from our garden gur- gur den deu nt fit Pro 30 years before It 11 happened next morning after Profs Pro Pro- fl III u- u Sharp made the remark about the rill homing Instinct of ot toads hop that thata u II freight conductor carne came into the sig- sig nit I tower lower where I am employed cl nn and showed me rue a n hop toad hop toad he lied had picked up on the lawn Jawn nt lit the Saugus station and brought to Boston In fn his caboose he saId he lie Intended ed to put the toad In his garden at nt Somerville to eat the bugs I told the file conductor about the experience ex ea I 1 had with n a toad down on onn Cape n e Cod and that Professor Protessor Sharp nail suld said that toads did really realty possess the homing Instinct Finally we decided decided de de- to tie a small tag to the toads toad hind leg with the conductors conductor's name and address written on it t and he was I Ito I to turn the toa toad loose Joose In his garden ai at Somerville that afternoon When the conductors conductor's train arrived at nt Saugus the next noon the toad with a tog tag on which his name was written was hopping hopping hop hOI ping round on the lawn at nt the Saugus station In order to prove still sUIi further that toads do really possess the homing Instinct Instinct In In- I took toole a toad tood from my garden at nt Wakefield ten miles from Boston Putting the toad In a box I walked to the Wakefield station and took a n atrain train for fOl Boston nt at half past half past ten in the evening When I 1 arrived In ht n Boston I 1 transferred to the Ele and rode lodE to Charlestown and nt at the corner comer of Perkins nail streets Charlestown Charlestown Charles Charles- town one toile mile from flom Boston near the signal tower towel where I work I Ij released the tho toad The toad was tagged with will and address my name As I walked Into late m my driveway n In Wakefield at past half eight the next morning a dust looking dusty toad with a asmaH small tag tied to his hind leg hopped across the lawn I la n n from the direction of ot the Metropolitan park lk reservation and ond placed himself under the sill cock coel where here the water dripped on him lido and bathed his dusty back back Youths Youth's Youths Youth's Com Corn |