Show DADDY fay A MOTHER TOAD there are some creatures said I 1 mother toad who are most peculiar but in spite of that fact net I 1 like them what Is peculiar about them and who ho do you mean asked sirs teddy toad well people are funny said abah pr toad INI mothers others only haie hae a mere handful of 0 children about them a mere handful ive liever never seen them carrying their children upon their hands said mrs toad sometimes ive seen them carrying one baby in the arms or one child upon the shoulders but a lot of children in the hand never d how dhow then do you say that they have a handful of children 1 I mean said Al mother lother toad that they dont have thousands of children like I 1 do I 1 moan mean they carried their children ildren cli around in their hands bands but that they dont have enough to count so that they would amount to a good number 1 I you see have thousands and so do you cut but even hough I 1 am so different from people I 1 like them strange and tall and they walk balk instead of hop and they eat roast beef and n nd lee ice cream a instead of slugs and worms wonna and little insects but still I 1 like them so do I 1 said mrs toddy teddy toad you see said mother toad 1 I think creatures are absurd who only like those who do just the same and think just the same as they do 10 themselves wafe le e I 1 am different and ilove I 1 love folks lots better and have lots lota better a time because of that just suppose I 1 said no I 1 dont like her she wears dresses whereas 1 I the toad do not 1 now that be absurd toads help people because they like them they do a lot of good work in the gardens just quantities of 0 good work and upon the farms too but I 1 much use for folks Nili ore always disliking everyone who think the same and dress the same and act the same as they do they miss so much joy out of life and besides people who want everyone else to agree with them are so conceited they have the manner as though they knew it a all 11 and were we re the only ones who iho were right but I 1 was saying how different people tire are from toads I 1 presume they JA I 1 A how different people are from toads think pretty different too she laughed lau Rhod 1 I guess they do said mrs airs teddy toad road oh well no matter they think the truth troth said mother toad now I 1 lay eleven thousand eggs ai a rule in a pool sometimes tha change rl right bt into toads in a few hours houra we dont wait for months like the tha frogs in order to become something just think of being the mother ol of eleven thousand children ildren cli all at once that Is something to be proud of and everyone of the eleven thousand children helps on farms and in gardens did you over ever hear bear of mother kan by the way I 1 heard of her the other day when some children were talking it seems she has a dt the sack under the front of her where here he keeps her children ildren cli for p protection i tion when uben danger Is near sort of swallows them you know now that Is an interesting wag thing if it Is true and I 1 fancy it must be for ive heard it from so many different people though I 1 will admit ie never seen it happen myself of course I 1 suppose it Is because im not around where kangaroos are but oil ob dear oil oh dear how I 1 love to think of eleven thousand little toads it must be awful to think of only a half dozen children but I 1 suppose their mothers feel that it would be horri horrible bleto to think of 0 eleven thousand children to wash and to put to bed or to send to bed when they got older and could go by themselves and need several schools for one family so I 1 suppose it Is all right that they have their own ways but im glad im a mother toad and have a mother toads ways |