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Along the edge of Georgetown 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 was a favourite haunt for toads and courting couples.
These toads are a great putty~colored beasts motled with chocolate blotches. They are attractive creatures, with wide mouth set in a perpetual grin, large, dark pop~eyes that are shot with silver and gold, and a portly and well~fed appearance. They are, as a rule, rather lethargic, but, as we discovered that night, they were capable of an astonishing turn of speed.
These toads had hitherto led a tranquil life, meditating by day and singing part~songs by night, so they were amazed and affronted by the appearance in their midst of four people who chased them vigorously with a torch. No less amazed and affronted where the vast number of courting couples who littered the grass almost as thickly as the toads. The toads strongly objected 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 were unanimous in their opinion of the four maniacs who leapt over their recumbent bodies in pursuit of the toads. However, in beween tripping over courting couples and apologizng to them, shining the torch on them and hastly turnig it of again, we managed to catch thirty~five toads. So we 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
However, she won't host the next puzzle.
Uabassoon will you ? You are the player with the highest score
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