`` How any one can mistake my babies for their cousins I can not understand . Now mine are beautiful , while -- '' `` Chug-arum ! '' interrupted the great deep voice of Grandfather Frog . `` What are you talking about ? Why , your babies are no more to be compared with my babies for real beauty than nothing at all ! I 'll leave it to Peter if they are . '' But Peter wisely held his tongue . To tell the truth , he could n't see beauty in any of them . To him they were all just wriggling pollywogs . They were more interesting now , because he had found out that some of them were Toads and some were Frogs , and he had n't known before that baby Toads begin life as tadpoles , but he had no intention of being drawn into the dispute now waxing furious between Grandfather Frog and Old Mr. Toad . IX THE SMILING POOL KINDERGARTEN Play a little , learn a little , grow a little too ; That 's what every pollywoggy tries his best to do . Of course . That 's what a kindergarten is for . And you may be sure that the babies of Grandfather Frog and Old Mr. Toad and Stickytoes the Tree Toad did all of these things in the kindergarten of the Smiling Pool . They looked considerably alike , did these little cousins , for they were all pollywogs to begin with . Peter Rabbit came over every day to watch them . Always he had thought pollywogs just homely , wriggling things , not the least bit interesting , but since he had discovered how proud of them were Grandfather Frog and Old Mr. Toad , he had begun to wonder about them and then to watch them . `` There 's one thing about them , and that is they are not in danger the way any babies are , '' said Peter , talking to himself as is his way when there is no one else to talk to . Just then a funny little black pollywog wriggled into sight , and while Peter was watching him , a stout-jawed water-beetle suddenly rushed from among the water grass , seized the pollywog by his tail , and dragged him down . Peter stared .
Could it be that that ugly-looking bug was as dangerous an enemy to the baby Toad as Reddy Fox is XXXXX a baby Rabbit ?
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