They were his fore legs , and they certainly did make him look funny . And only a few days before there had n't been a sign of legs . `` My gracious ! '' exclaimed Peter . `` What a funny sight ! I thought my babies grew fast , but these beat them . '' X THE LITTLE TOADS START OUT TO SEE THE WORLD The world is a wonderful great big place And in it the young must roam To learn what their elders have long since learned -- There 's never a place like home . It had been some time since Peter Rabbit had visited the Smiling Pool to watch the pollywogs . But one cloudy morning he happened to think of them , and decided that he would run over there and see how they were getting along . So off he started , lipperty-lipperty-lip . He wondered if those pollywog children of Old Mr. Toad would be much changed . The last time he saw them some of them had just begun to grow legs , although they still had long tails . He had almost reached the Smiling Pool when great big drops of rain began to splash down . And with those first raindrops something funny happened . Anyway , it seemed funny to Peter . Right away he was surrounded by tiny little Toads . Everywhere he looked he saw Toads , tiny little Toads just like Old Mr. Toad , only so tiny that one could have sat comfortably on a ten-cent piece and still had plenty of room . Peter 's big eyes grew round with surprise as he stared . Where had they all come from so suddenly ? A minute before he had n't seen a single one , and now he could hardly move without stepping on one .
It seemed , it really XXXXX , as if each raindrop turned into a tiny Toad the instant it struck the ground .
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