JOHNNY AND THE TOAD.
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JOHNNY. I want to go to school, And he won't let me pass; I think that a toad Ought to keep on the grass. I don't want to cry; But I'm afraid I'm going to: Oh, dear me! What am I to do?
TOAD. Here's a dreadful thing!— A boy in the way, I don't know what to do: I don't know what to say. I can't see the reason Such monsters should be loose: I'm trembling all over; But that is of no use. JOHNNY. I must go to school, The bell is going to stop: That terrible old toad,— If he only would hop! TOAD. I must cross the path, I can hear my children croak; I hope that dreadful boy Will not give me a poke.
A hop and a start, a flutter and a rush, Johnny is at school, and the toad in his bush. H.A.F.