Child Songs of Cheer

<h2><SPAN name="OUR_TREE-TOAD" id="OUR_TREE-TOAD"></SPAN>OUR TREE-TOAD</h2> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">Grandfather says the tree-toad,<br/></span> <span class="i2">That to our yard has come,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Is just a little wee toad<br/></span> <span class="i2">No bigger than his thumb!<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">And that his coat's so queer it<br/></span> <span class="i2">Can turn from green to blue!<br/></span> <span class="i0">Whatever color's near it,<br/></span> <span class="i2">Why, that's its color, too!<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">And then Grandfather snickers<br/></span> <span class="i2">And says, "Would you suppose<br/></span> <span class="i0">He climbs with little stickers<br/></span> <span class="i2">On all his little toes?<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">"And don't you wish your toes now<br/></span> <span class="i2">Were fixed like his? For, see,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Right up the elm he goes now<br/></span> <span class="i2">And sticks tight to the tree!"<br/></span> <span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_76" id="Page_76">[76]</SPAN></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">"But then," he says, "O dear me!<br/></span> <span class="i2">If all the little boys<br/></span> <span class="i0">Could <i>screech</i> as loud, I fear me<br/></span> <span class="i2">There'd be a dreadful noise!"<br/></span></div> </div> <hr style="width: 65%;" /> <p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_77" id="Page_77">[77]</SPAN></span></p> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />