Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 August 1882 — Too Hot. [ARTICLE]

Too Hot.

A writer in the Portland Transcript gives the following laughable description of the trouble a toad got himself into by not taking care what he ate. He swillowed a wasp, thinking, no doubt, that it was a large but defenceless fly. The realization of his mistake came when the wasp began pricking his internal organs, as a guilty conscience pricks a sinner. The toad stood on his hind legs, and reached frantically down his throat after that wasp. Failing to dislodge it, he turned three summersaults in a manner that would have rivaled the boss tumbler in a circus. Then he stood up, and exclaimed, “Woo-<>oduc! WooooducP’ which was supposed to be a call for a stomach-pump, or a quick emetic. He then made several efforts to stand on his head, but was unsuccesful. Next, be bethought himself of thegreenback doctrine of inflation,and puffed out his sides until he looked like a base-ball with legs to it. Inflation didn’t hit the case, and was soon abandoned. Again be reached down his throat,but his arm was too short to reach the spot where the wasp was operating. His head began to swim, and he wbapped over on his back, and clawed the air like a man overboard. The wasp was evidently unable to continue his infliction of punishment, and the toad began to feel b tter. He got upon his feet, and with a forefoot carefully examined his ribs upon either side. Finding them all in place, he stretched himself to his utmost height two or three times, to see if his legs were in working order, and then hopped a hop or two to make assurance sure. Being satisfied that he was ail there, he gave a croak of relief, and hopped under the tomato-vines.