Toad looked at the sunshine at the sunshine coming through the window. 'Frog,' he said, 'I am so glad that you came over.'

'I always do,' said Frog.

“PRESENTING THE GREATEST TOAD IN ALL THE WORLD!”

“On the way home we lost our way. My mother was worried.

‘We must get home’ she said. ‘We do not want to meet the old Dark Frog.’

‘Who is that?’ I asked.

‘A terrible ghost,’ said my father. ‘He comes out at night and eats little frog children for supper.’”

Then Frog ran back to Toad’s house. Toad was in bed, taking a nap.

Toad ran out of his house. There was Frog.

“Hello, Toad,” he said. “I am very sorry to be late. I was wrapping your present.”

Toad walked along the path. A large, soft drop of chocolate ice cream slipped down his arm.

Then Toad began to bang his head against the wall.

'Why are you banging your head against the wall?' asked Frog.

Frog and Toad waited a long time.

Frog walked into the house. It was dark. All the shutters were closed. 'Toad, where are you?' called Frog.

'Go away,' said the voice from a corner of the room.

Toad sat and did nothing. Frog sat with him.

Toad went out to his garden with some candles.

“I will read the seeds a story,” said Toad. “Then they will not be afraid.”

'Toad,' said Frog, 'I will hold the ball of string. You hold the kite and run.'

They came to the top of a mountain. The shadow of a hawk fell over them.

The turtle laughed. The lizards laughed. The snake laughed. The field mouse laughed, and Frog laughed.

Toad sipped his tea. 'Frog,' he asked, 'are you making this up?'

'Maybe yes and maybe no,' said Frog.

Frog said, 'Would you like me to tell you a story, Toad? '

'Yes,' said Toad, 'if you know one.'

“Toad,” asked Frog. “Don’t you like to be scared? Don’t you like to feel the shivers?”

“I am not too sure,” said Toad.

“Yes,” said Frog, reaching for a cookie, “we need willpower.”

“What is willpower?” asked Toad.

And all the next day Toad played music for his seeds.

Toad looked at the ground. The seeds still did not want to grow. “What shall I do?” cried Toad. “These must be the most frightened seeds in the whole world!”