Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1868-02-14

HOoh Out II Iet quite a Nearnlng after the
green things up yonder. And so next morn
ing as the bucket was going up, when it hap
pened to stop for an instant before the stone
where the toad sat the little creature quiv-
cred through and through, and edged into
the bucket 1t sank to the bottom of the
water, which was presently drawn up and
, poured out.
3" Pluh, bothcration - said the man when
he saw it - it is the ugliest one have ever
seem" lie kicked with his wooden shoe at
the toad, which was near being crippled, but
managed to escape into the middle of some
tall singing nettles. 1t saw stalks side by
Its side around it, and it looked upward too.
The sun shone on the leaves; they were quite
transparent For the toad it was the same
as 1t Is for US men, when We come all at once
into a great forest, where the sun is shining
between leaves and branches.
. 1t IL much prettier here than down in the
well! One might well stop here for ones
whole lifetime, " said the little toad. 1t Law
there one hour it lay there two. E. Now,
wonder what there is outside; as ! have gone
50 far | may as well % further" And it
cawled as fast as it could crawl till it came
out into the full sunshine and got powdered
with dust as it marched across a high-road.
- This is something like being on dry
land, said the toad am getting al
most too much Of Z GOOD thing It tickles rioht
into me-
Now il came To ditch the forcet-me-not
grew here. and the meadow-sweet; beyond il |
was hedge Of white-thorn and elder-bushes, !
and the cony1vulus crept and hung about it, |
Here were fine c,lors to he seen And ,on-
der flew a butterfly. The toad thought that |
it wasa flower which had broken loose in |
order to look about il in the world if real |
" seemed :, very natural
=. If one could only oct along like that -
said the toad e. Ouark-alack oh how glo-
lious 80
For eight days and NIGHTS if lingcred bv the
ditch. and felt mo- want Of food The ninth
day it tboupbt. :. Further forward But
was there any thing more beautiful to be
found then? narharg n little toad. or some
Green frors there had been a sound in the
wind last NIGHT. rs if there were 3. cousins''
in the neighhorhood.
..Ir j. a fine +bin, f., livei to c,pe o,,t of
the we'll: +, lie in stipgiugnettles. +, Green
alonga dusty road and +, rest in a wet ditch
but forward still let us find ont fro.,s or n
little toad one cannot do without them ac
fer all nature. bv itself is nat onourb far
one l'' And s., ii set ont ac,ip on it, wan
.lerin,s
# came to.o field and q, laros ,..r5 with
rasbe. r,und II If to3t n loot inside
81. Il is too yyer f,r van here ism if D. said
the fr,rs =. bu+ ,,,l ort. milf. ,,.al,,,oo
Are v,r - h, M. .ie not rbaf If ,oa+rnrs
Won arr, welcome all the same
And s., If was invited n q .,rcert in tbe
c,enir,- =, fam, ,;I,, .,,,err ,,r.,+ ,.xoi+o.,,,+
and thin voices veaII know tIot s,rt of tlin,
/ There were mo- refre.I,mcn+s ,v.eut drint
/ but that fre. TO alI-tIe ,vb.le n.nd If rbe1.
rlsased
e. Now shall travel f,r-be. ., s,;d tho little
toad II was oIyyavs c-,,.;r,. ,fro- s-,,,o-
tlinc better
clear If saw +be new moon sbi1e Il saw
tn. sun rise. birber and birber
=. / think am still in the well. in n laroe-
well ,uus+ get bigber mn feel a rest
les,ncss n lon5jnr and when the moon had
crown r,ll and round the ,.,,r creature
fbopgLt =. Can hat ba +lo bnckat ,rb;cb j.
bein17 Iar d.,,-n and ,,E,,b ,o,,s+ ,.,, Inn,
irI Iisb +q ,,or li,rber ,.,3 Or i tl,a IN, H..
a,reat Lrelf79 How ,rc,t If +. and how
6eomiu,,, Ir eould hold all ofus tn.retbsr
must witch for INV ouporplnity. What a
irirbtne.. l5 in NV nv head d. n6{ eIieve ,'t That
the Jewel can Shine better. The level! / .
have it not. and shall not cry after it. No:
] hl rher still IN glitter and Eladuess teel an !
assurance. and vet fear: it is a hard step to
take. but it must be taken, Forward right
on along the high-road ''
And 1t elIed out.as well AZ such crawl
ing creature can. till it came to the great
thoroughfare, where the men lived Here
there were d5wer-sardens and cabhage-gar-
deus. Il turned aside t. rest in a cabbage
garden.
&. hat q number of different beings there
are, which / know nothing about and how
great and blessed Is the world But one
must keep looking about one, instead of sit
ting always in the same corner. And SO it
sidled into the cabhage-gardcn .. How green
it is here, how pretty il Il. herel''
:. That | know well enough p" said the
caterrillar. ON the leaf Nv leaf Is the
lorge5r here it covers half the world-but
as f,r ti,s u-,rld can d. ,yiriont If
-. ri,.t, ,I,,cl, -. soii s,-,eI,dr and
fowls came en- trinTinr into the cabbore-2arlen'
TI,e f.ra,,os+ hen was lono-siobfaf. she
;oI ,t + ,.,,. n .be c,,r, Io,f and
Hllit' 't ti' N'l4li VII ti4N Ne'i4 i't'if an" /