36 The Toad.

‘‘Now,” said the toad, “I think I may truly say,
that you will be surprised.” So they waited and
waited and waited and waited, and no fish came.

At last Reginald lost all patience, and said, “]
will wait no longer, I have not seen a single fish.”’

“Then,” said the toad, “if they don’t come,
I can’t catch them, canI? But there is one thing
I can do, and I do it well, too, and that is to catch
butterflies. Would you like to see me do it?”

‘Toads can’t catch butterflies,” said Reginald,
contemptuously.

“I ask you again, rude boy, will you come
and see me catch butterflies ? ”

“I should like to very much.”

“Then come, and you are to look up in the
sky all the time, and when you see a butterfly,
tell me,” directed the toad.

So on they went, the toad holding Reginald’s
hand, and Reginald looking up into the sky. But
although they walked for more than an hour, and
the poor boy’s neck ached cruelly, of one butterfly
did they see.

At last, Reginald, as before. lost patience, and