The Adventures of Toad (21)

The Adventures of Toad (21)

  Shaking with laughter, the girl proceeded to " hook-and-eye " him into the gown, and tied the strings of the bonnet under his chin.
  " You're the very image of her, " she giggled.

  With a quaking heart, Toad set forth.
  But he was soon agreeably surprised to find how easy everything was.

  The washerwoman's squat figure seemed a passport for every barred door and grim gateway.

  The humorous sallies to which he was subjected formed his chief danger ; for Toad was an animal with a strong sense of his own dignity.

  He kept his temper, however, though with difficulty.

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