Show td stone stones most readers have no doubt heard beard of tho the precious jew jewels da which the toad curries carries lu III his brain box and so called toad stones which were in reality the tile teeth 0 of foil fomil fish were formerly worn in fing finger errings rings aa as a protection against poison 1 it was thought that the best stones wen were those voluntarily ejected by the living toads but as the latter were cro not addicted addict I 1 that to freely giving up vp their treasures tre muns in that way it was necessary procure ed articles IT by other means and the recognized method was to decapitate the hapless batra chlan at the instant he lie swallows his ills breath the tile eat feat naturally demanded considerable celerity such as could only ba a acquired by coni constant tant practice and it la Is no not t reasonable therefore to assume that although the th endeavors to gain poss etalon ot of the jewels were perhaps numerous nume rolis they must have invariably been unsatisfactory especially to tho tile toads queries fag lagai azine lne |