Those Toad pollywogs you see now will turn into real Toads , and be leaving the Smiling Pool in a few weeks . People think Old Mr. Toad is slow , but there is nothing slow about his children . Look at that little fellow over there ; he 's begun to grow legs already . '' Peter looked , and sure enough there was a pollywog with a pair of legs sprouting out . They were his fore legs , and they certainly did make him look funny . And only a few days before there had n't been a sign of legs . `` My gracious ! '' exclaimed Peter . `` What a funny sight ! I thought my babies grew fast , but these beat them . '' X THE LITTLE TOADS START OUT TO SEE THE WORLD The world is a wonderful great big place And in it the young must roam To learn what their elders have long since learned -- There 's never a place like home . It had been some time since Peter Rabbit had visited the Smiling Pool to watch the pollywogs . But one cloudy morning he happened to think of them , and decided that he would run over there and see how they were getting along . So off he started , lipperty-lipperty-lip . He wondered if those pollywog children of Old Mr. Toad would be much changed . The last time he saw them some of them had just begun to grow legs , although they still had long tails . He had almost reached the Smiling Pool when great big drops of rain began to splash down . And with those first raindrops something funny happened . Anyway , it seemed funny to Peter . Right away he was surrounded by tiny little Toads .
Everywhere he looked he saw XXXXX , tiny little Toads just like Old Mr. Toad , only so tiny that one could have sat comfortably on a ten-cent piece and still had plenty of room .
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