`` Do you mean Old Mr. Toad ! '' he asked . Jimmy nodded . `` Do you see anything queer about him ? '' he asked in his turn . -LSB- Illustration : `` Do you see anything queer about him ? '' he asked . -RSB- Peter stared down the Lone Little Path . `` No , '' he replied , `` except that he seems in a great hurry . '' `` That 's just it , '' Jimmy returned promptly . `` Did you ever see him hurry unless he was frightened ? '' Peter confessed that he never had . `` Well , he is n't frightened now , yet just look at him go , '' retorted Jimmy . `` Says he has got a beautiful voice , and that he has to take part in the spring chorus at the Smiling Pool and that he is late . '' Peter looked very hard at Jimmy to see if he was fooling or telling the truth . Then he began to laugh . `` Old Mr. Toad sing ! The very idea ! '' he cried . `` He can sing about as much as I can , and that is not at all . ''
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