Page 136 - Adventures in shadow-land

C H A P T E R X IV .

T H E G R E E N F R O G \

OLLOW ING the toad, and saying good­
bye to his mistress, Eva passed unhurt

through the falling stones, and picked
her way carefully among those which lay in the bed

of the river, till they came to the turn at which she
had first caught sight of the Cascade of Hocks*

There the toad hopped quickly on shore, and then
he hopped across a large plain of mud, in which

grew a multitude of toad-stools, and on every
toad stool, or mushroom, there sat either a frog
or a toad, and in the mud at their feet were

countless numbers of snakes and lizards, their
long, shining bodies and tails coiled around the

stalks of the toad stools.
It was almost impossible for Eva to make any

progress through the mud, over which the toad,

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