Nature

Croak! said the Toad, I'm hungry, I think

by Anonymous (English nursery rhymes) traditional; recorded 17th–19th century

From The Nursery Rhymes of England, collected by J. O. Halliwell (London: Warne; first ed. 1842; this printing 1886)

Nature

Croak! said the Toad, I'm hungry, I think,
To-day I've had nothing to eat or to drink,
I'll crawl to a garden and jump through the pales,
And there I'll dine nicely on slugs and on snails;
Ho, ho! quoth the Frog, is that what you mean?
Then I'll hop away to the next meadow stream,
There I will drink, and eat worms and slugs too,
And then I shall have a good dinner like you.

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Halliwell's class: Natural History.

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Anonymous (English nursery rhymes). “Croak! said the Toad, I'm hungry, I think.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/anonymous-english-nursery-rhymes/507/.

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Anonymous (English nursery rhymes). “Croak! said the Toad, I'm hungry, I think.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/anonymous-english-nursery-rhymes/507/.

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