The Toad-Boy. 187

journey. But he was obliged to go very, very
slowly, ‘“‘hop-i-ty, hop-i-ty, hop,” for his poor lit-
tle legs pained him dreadfully.

At last, he was ready for his final jump, when
as before, out popped the Snake. But this time
out popped somebody else at the same time—
‘t was the friendly Toad. And
what do you think he did? He
gave one tremendous jump, and
came down directly on the Snake’s
head, and as he was very fat and
* heavy, the Snake was unable to
move. Our Toad, meanwhile, had
succeeded in reaching the stone,
and at once began to feel very

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  

strangely. First, his toad-skin
began to ‘“c-r-r-r-rack, c-r-r-r-
; rack,” and finally fell from
{4 ~ him altogether; then he
= grew taller and taller, and
then before you could count five, a dey stood
where a toad had been before! He stepped from
the stone and tried to walk, which at first was a