Frog and Toad / Квак и Жаб. 3-4 классы
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They walked back to the big meadow. They looked for the button in the grass.
“Here is your button!” cried Frog.
“No,” said Toad, “that is not my button. That button is black. My button was white.” And Toad put the black button in his pocket.
A sparrow flew down from a tree.
“Excuse me,” said Sparrow. “Did you lose a button? I found one.”
“No,” said Toad, “that is not my button. That button has two holes. My button had four holes.” And Toad put the button with two holes in his pocket.
They went back to the woods and looked on the paths.
“Here is your button!” cried Frog.
“No,” said Toad, “that is not my button. That button is small. My button was big.” And Toad put the small button in his pocket.
A raccoon came out from behind a tree.
“Excuse me,” said Raccoon. “I heard that you lost a button. Here is the one I just found.
“No,” said Toad, “that is not my button! That button is square. My button was round.” And Toad put the square button in his pocket.
Frog and Toad went back to the river. They looked for the button in the mud.
“Here is your button!” cried Frog.
“No,” said Toad, “that is not my button! That button is thin. My button was thick.
And Toad put the thin button in his pocket. He was very angry. He jumped up and down.
“The world is full of buttons, but they are not mine!” cried Toad.
Toad ran home and shut the door. There on the floor, he saw his white, big, round, thick button with four holes.
“Oh!” said Toad. “It was here all the time. So much trouble I made for Frog!”
Toad took all of the buttons out of his pocket and sewed them all on his jacket.
The next day Toad gave his jacket to Frog. Frog thought that it was beautiful. He put it on and jumped for joy. None of the buttons got lost. Toad sewed them on very well.
A Swim
Toad and Frog went to the river.
“What a day for a swim,” said Frog.
“Yes,” said Toad. “I will go behind the rocks and put on my bathing suit.”
“I don’t wear a bathing suit,” said Frog.
“But I do,” said Toad. “After I put on my bathing suit, do not look at me until I get into the water.”
“Why not?” asked Frog.
“Because I look funny in my bathing suit,” said Toad.
Frog closed his eyes when Toad came out from behind the rocks. Toad had his bathing suit on.
“Don’t look,” he said.
Frog and Toad jumped into the water. They swam all day. Frog swam fast. Toad swam slowly.
A turtle came along the river.
“Frog, ask the turtle to go away,” said Toad. “I do not want him to see me in my bathing suit when I come out of the river.”
Frog swam to the turtle.
“Turtle,” said Frog, “please go away.”
“Why?” asked the turtle.
“Because Toad thinks that he looks funny in his bathing suit, and he does not want you to see him,” said Frog.
Some lizards were sitting nearby.
“Does Toad really look funny in his bathing suit?” they asked.
A snake came out of the grass.
“If Toad looks funny in his bathing suit,” said the snake, “then I want to see him.”
“We want to see him too,” said two dragonflies.
“I want to see something funny, too,” said a field mouse.
Frog swam back to Toad.
“I am sorry, Toad,” he said. “Everyone wants to see you in your bathing suit.”
“Then I will stay here in the river until they go away,” said Toad.
The turtle and the lizards and the snake and the dragonflies and the field mouse all sat at the river. They waited for Toad to come out of the water.
“Please,” cried Frog, “please go away!”
But no one went away. Toad got colder and colder. He started to shiver.
“I must come out of the water,” said Toad, “or I will get a cold.”
Toad got out of the river. The water ran out of his bathing suit. The turtle laughed. The lizards laughed. The snake laughed. The field mouse laughed, and Frog laughed, too.
“Why are you laughing, Frog?” asked Toad.
“I am laughing, Toad,” said Frog, “because you really look funny in your bathing suit!”
“I know that,” said Toad. Then he took his clothes and went home.
The Letter
Toad was sitting by his house.
Frog came in and said, “What is wrong, Toad? You look sad.”
“Yes,” answered Toad, “this my sad time of day. It is the time when I wait for the mail. It always makes me very unhappy.”
“But why?” asked Frog
“Because I never get any mail,” said Toad.
“Never?” asked Frog.
“No, never,” said Toad. “No one sends me letters. Every day my mailbox is empty.
That is why the mail time is a sad time for me.”