`` I 'll look down the Crooked Little Path for five minutes and promise not to peek . '' So Peter sat and gazed straight down the Crooked Little Path . It was a great temptation to roll his eyes back and peep behind him , but he had given his word that he would n't , and he did n't . When he thought the five minutes were up , he turned around . Old Mr. Toad was nowhere to be seen . Peter looked hastily this way and that way , but there was not a sign of Old Mr. Toad . He had disappeared as completely as if he never had been there . XV OLD MR. TOAD GIVES PETER A SCARE If you play pranks on other folks You may be sure that they Will take the first chance that they get A joke on you to play . Old Mr. Toad was getting even with Peter for laughing at him . While Peter 's back had been turned , Old Mr. Toad had disappeared . It was too much for Peter . Look as he would , he could n't see so much as a chip under which Old Mr. Toad might have hidden , excepting the old board , and Old Mr. Toad had given his word of honor that he would n't hide under that . Nevertheless , Peter hopped over to it and turned it over again , because he could n't think of any other place to look . Of course , Old Mr. Toad was n't there . Of course not . He had given his word that he would n't hide there , and he always lives up to his word . Peter should have known better than to have looked there . Old Mr. Toad had also said that he would not go three feet from the spot where he was sitting at the time , so Peter should have known better than to have raced up the Crooked Little Path as he did . But if Old Mr. Toad had nothing to hide under , of course he must have hopped away , reasoned Peter . He could n't hop far in five minutes , that was sure , and so Peter ran this way and that way a great deal farther than it would have been possible for Old Mr. Toad to have gone .
But it was a wholly useless search , and presently XXXXX returned and sat down on the very spot where he had last seen Old Mr. Toad .
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