Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 February 1893 — How to Make a Toad Happy. [ARTICLE]

How to Make a Toad Happy.

There are few things more amusing than to watoh a toad submitting to the operation of a back-scratohing. Ho will at first look somewhat suspiciously at the twig which you are advancing toward him. But after two or three passes down his back his manner undergoes a marked change; his eyes close with an expression of infinite rapture, he plants his feet wider apart and his body swells out to nearly double its ordinary size, as if to obtain by these means more room for enjoyment. Thus he will remain until you make some sudden movement which startles him, until he has had as much petting as he wants, when, with a puff of regretful delight, he will reduce himself to his usual dimensions and hop away, bent once more on the pleasures of the chase. —Boston Gazette.