Old Mr. Toad was getting even with Peter for laughing at him . While Peter 's back had been turned , Old Mr. Toad had disappeared . It was too much for Peter . Look as he would , he could n't see so much as a chip under which Old Mr. Toad might have hidden , excepting the old board , and Old Mr. Toad had given his word of honor that he would n't hide under that . Nevertheless , Peter hopped over to it and turned it over again , because he could n't think of any other place to look . Of course , Old Mr. Toad was n't there . Of course not . He had given his word that he would n't hide there , and he always lives up to his word . Peter should have known better than to have looked there . Old Mr. Toad had also said that he would not go three feet from the spot where he was sitting at the time , so Peter should have known better than to have raced up the Crooked Little Path as he did . But if Old Mr. Toad had nothing to hide under , of course he must have hopped away , reasoned Peter . He could n't hop far in five minutes , that was sure , and so Peter ran this way and that way a great deal farther than it would have been possible for Old Mr. Toad to have gone . But it was a wholly useless search , and presently Peter returned and sat down on the very spot where he had last seen Old Mr. Toad . Peter never had felt more foolish in all his life . He began to think that Old Mr. Toad must be bewitched and had some strange power of making himself invisible . For a long time Peter sat perfectly still , trying to puzzle out how Old Mr. Toad had disappeared , but the more he puzzled over it , the more impossible it seemed . And yet Old Mr. Toad had disappeared . Suddenly Peter gave a frightened scream and jumped higher than he ever had jumped before in all his life . A voice , the voice of Old Mr. Toad himself , had said , `` Well , now are you satisfied ? '' And that voice had come from right under Peter !
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