Puzzle 276

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.....Only for your eyes Uabassoon

Along the edge of Georgeto-n runs a broad esplanade, bounded on one side by the sea and on the other by an area of trees and grass,
intersected by numerous canals. This -as a favourite haunt for toads and courting couples.
These toads are a great putty~colored beasts motled -ith chocolate blotches. They are attractive creatures, -ith -ide mouth set in a perpetual grin, large, dark pop~eyes that are shot -ith silver and gold, and a portly and -ell~fed appearance. They are, as a rule, rather lethargic, but, as -e discovered that night, they -ere capable of an astonishing turn of speed.
These toads had hitherto led a tranquil life, meditating by day and singing part~songs by nitght, so they -ere ama-ed and affronted by the appearance in their midst of four people -ho chased them vigorously -ith a torch. No less ama-ed and affronted -here the vast number of courting couples -ho littered the grass almost as thickly as the toads. The toads strongly ob-ected to the torch being flashed on them, on so did the courting couples. The toads did not like being chased across miles of grass, and the curting couples -ere unanimous in their opinion of the four maniacs -ho leapt over their recumbent bodies in pursuit of the toads. Ho-ever, in bet-een tripping over courting couples and apologi-ing to them, shining the torch on them and hastly turnig it of again, -e managed to catch thirty~five toads. So -e returned home, hot and out of breath but in much better frame of mind, leaving behind us a great many frightened toads and a number of indignant people of both sexes.

Three Singles to Adventure by Gerald Durrell

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