I herewith appoint you my chief gardener , Mr. Toad . And as a sign that all may know that this is so , hereafter you shall always swallow your old suit whenever you change your clothes ! ' `` And from that day to this the toads have been the very best of gardeners . And in memory of their great , great , great-grandfather a thousand times removed they have always swallowed their old suits . `` Now you know what my cousin , old Mr. Toad , did with his old suit just before Peter Rabbit passed his house this morning , '' concluded Great-Grandfather Frog . `` Oh , '' cried the Merry Little Breezes , `` thank you , thank you , Grandfather Frog ! '' Then they raced away across the Green Meadows and up the Crooked Little Path to see if old Mr. Toad was gardening . And Peter Rabbit still wonders what old Mr. Toad did with his old suit . X GRANDFATHER FROG GETS EVEN Old Grandfather Frog sat on his big green lily pad in the Smiling Pool dreaming of the days when the world was young and the frogs ruled the world . His hands were folded across his white and yellow waistcoat . Round , red , smiling Mr. Sun sent down his warmest rays on the back of Grandfather Frog 's green coat . Very early that morning Old Mother West Wind , hurrying down from the Purple Hills on her way to help the white-sailed ships across the great ocean , had stopped long enough to blow three or four fat , foolish , green flies over to the big lily pad , and they were now safely inside the white and yellow waistcoat . A thousand little tadpoles , the great , great-grandchildren of Grandfather Frog , were playing in the Smiling Pool , and every once in a while wriggling up to the big lily pad to look with awe at Grandfather Frog and wonder if they would ever be as handsome and big and wise as he . And still old Grandfather Frog sat dreaming and dreaming of the days when all the frogs had tails and ruled the world . Presently Billy Mink came hopping and skipping down the Laughing Brook . Sometimes he swam a little way and sometimes he ran a little way along the bank , and sometimes he jumped from stone to stone . Billy Mink was feeling very good -- very good indeed . He had caught a fine fat trout for breakfast . He had hidden two more away for dinner in a snug little hole no one knew of but himself . Now he had nothing to do but get into mischief .
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