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' - .1 IW.'l'J-.■' l " ‘M-" v ^ : r . TUESDAY AFTERNOON, FEB. H, 1919 Little Amphibian Has Strong Homing Instinct. Like the Proverbial Cat, He Will t Come Back to Hie Fixed Abode if j. Then Is Any Possibility of ~ His Doing It When I wj>» a boy down on Cnpe Cod, writes a friend of the Compan ion, I remember my mother temping the side af a toad Vltiv her hoe while working to the garden. Tlue next day mother noticed there was a large scab in the tohd’s side. It made her nerv ous to 1o#k at it, and she asked me to put the load in a bo* and carry it away. I-carried'the toad a distance of three miles into the woods and dropped him. He was back in our gar den the Very next day; and although I repeated the performance three times, it hopped back every time. Fi nally mother said not to bother him, for the scab was healing. I never gave- that a second thought until I happened to be studying under Professor Sharp at Boston university, ♦/) when, to Illustrate a point to the class, he said that toads, like carrier pigeons, possessed the homing instinct; then I thought of the toad that mother had asked me to carry away from our gar den at Provincetown, 30 years before. It happened next morning after Pro fessor Sharp made the remark about the homing Instinct of hop-toads that a freight conductor came into the sig nal tower where I am employed and showed me a hop-toad he had picked up. on the lawn at the ^Saugus station and brought to Boston in his caboose; he said he intended to put the toad in his garden at Somerville to eat the bugs. I told the conductor about the ex perience I had with a toad down on Cape Cod and that Professor Sharp bad said that toads did really possess the homing instinct. Finally, - we de cided to tie a small tag to the toad’s hind leg with the conductor’s name and address written on it; and he was to turn the toad loose in his garden at Somerville that afternoon. When the conductor’s train arrived at-Saugus the next noon the toad with a tag on which his name was written was hop ping round on the lawn at the Saugus station. J5V.r In order to prove still t^Rther that toads do really possess theVlioiring In stinct I took a toad from .^hy garden at Wakefield, ten miles from • Boston. 'Putting the toad in a box, I walked to the Wakefield station and took a train for Boston at half-pagt ten In tlu> evening. When I nrrlved£3h Boston I transferred to the F.ltwited rind rode to Charlestown, and at the corner of Perkins and Haverhill streets, Charles town, one mile from Boston, near the signal tower where I work, I released the toad. The toad was tagged with my name and address. • -A» l walked into my driveway in ^Wakefield at half-past eight the next pwraing a dusty-looklng toad with a rimull tag tied to his hind leg hopped across the lawn from the direction of tjbe Metropolitan park reservation and placed himself under the sill cock, where the water dripped on him and bathed his dusty hack.—Youth’s Com- panion. Historic Firth of Forth. / The Firth of Forth is, of course, one ■iiH the most notable things in all &ct>t- Iknd. From Kincardine, where it of ficially begins, to that imaginary line just west of the isle of May, from the Bast Neuk of Fife to the mouth of the ..dyne, in Haddingtonshire, where it of ficially ends, Is a distance of 48 miles; t while from shore to shore the t* v -i panse of water measures anyth'.g from one and a half miles, at Quenis- . ferry to seventeen and a half miles off the Isle of May. Within this great expanse of Water whole fleets may rjde at anchor in perfect safety, and, 'although little is known of the great scenes which must have t alien place in these waters during the last four .■years, the story of the Firth of Forth during the great war, culminating, as it did the other day. with the surren der there of the German high sens fleet, will-be not the least interesting Of the many stories which still remain to be written. l - The Military Haircut. t,“We. are all militarists now,” said Representative Kirby of Arkansas. “I was being shaved in a barbel shop the other day - when a grizzled rtiap In a captain’s uniform came in. He saluted smartly and seated him- self la the chair next to my own. ,r “ ‘Hair cut,’ he said in gruff tones. ‘■‘How would you like It cut, sir? the barber asked. “The captain, who was baldish, an swered, gruffer than ever: “ ‘Line up the hairs and number ofl to the right Odd numbers each want a half inch off. 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