Primer Part II . Madeline Caipenuer Oh! dandelion, yellow as gold, What do you do all night ? 11 I wait and wait till the cool dew falls And my hair is long and white. What do you do when your hair grows whiteAnd the children come to play? They take me up in their dimpled handsAnd blow my hair away. — Art Literature, (by permission ofAtkinson, Mentzer and Grover). 54. Paton YOURE NO CHICKEN. THE TOAD Dont touch it, said John, it willgive you warts. Nonsense ! said his father, as hetook the toad in his hand. Do you notknow that this rough little fellow is auseful friend in our garden ! He eatsm
Primer Part II . Madeline Caipenuer Oh! dandelion, yellow as gold, What do you do all night ? 11 I wait and wait till the cool dew falls And my hair is long and white. What do you do when your hair grows whiteAnd the children come to play? They take me up in their dimpled handsAnd blow my hair away. — Art Literature, (by permission ofAtkinson, Mentzer and Grover). 54. Paton YOURE NO CHICKEN. THE TOAD Dont touch it, said John, it willgive you warts. Nonsense ! said his father, as hetook the toad in his hand. Do you notknow that this rough little fellow is auseful friend in our garden ! He eatsmany flies, grubs, and insects. How does he catch them? said John. He does not move about after hisfood as dogs and birds do. The insect 55 must come close to his mouth to be it would not do this if it saw the toad. So the toad di^s into the earth withhis hind legs, and then pushes his bodyinto the hole till only the back and eyesare above ground. His back is the colorof the earth so it is not seen by grubs andinsects. When one of these moves nearto the toad, out flies his long tongue, andthe insect is cauoht and eaten. His tongue is not fastened at the backof the mouth like ours, but in the frontof the mouth, and is loose at the back. He has no teeth on his lower frog always has, and this will helpyou to know a toad from a frog. Though he ea
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