“They are very different from each other, both in shape and in their ways of living. The toad is a fat, clumsy animal. His skin is dull and warty. He does not hop, but crawls or walks lazily along.
“He lives upon flying insects, which he catches with his curious long tongue. He gets very fat during summer and autumn.
“Before winter comes on, he looks out a snug hole under a root or stone. Here he sleeps the whole winter through.
“In spring he wakes up, lean and hungry, and betakes himself to the pond.
“The eggs of the toad are laid in the water in long strings, each like a double row of beads. They hang gracefully upon the water weeds, and look very pretty.
“The toad tadpoles are very like those of the frog. They go through the same changes.
“The toad also casts his skin, but he does not throw it away like the newt. He takes his old, cast-off skin, rolls it up into a neat little ball, and swallows it.
“The frog’s body is more slender. His skin is slippery. It is not dull and dingy like that of the toad. It is of a bright greenish yellow colour, marked with black spots of different sizes.
1. Frog. 2. Toad. 3. Frog catching a Fly with its tongue.