| The party was very lively. There was lots of food and drink. Birds were singing and dancing to their hearts' content. The toad tried everything. He drank and ate quite a lot. Most of the birds refused to dance with the toad. The parrot and sparrow were very upset with having this toad in their midst. They suggested that the toad be pushed off the cloud. The vulture was totally against this idea. The toad listened to all this and became worried. He crept back to the vulture's guitar and climbed back inside to hide. |
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Soon, the vulture picked up the guitar to play. The poor toad was going deaf inside! When the party in the sky was finished the vulture flew off the cloud and soared through the sky. He noticed that his guitar seemed heavy so he looked inside and discovered the hidden toad. "Please let me stay inside your guitar," begged the frightened toad. "Oh no, little toad," answered the vulture. "I want to see how you fly." With that the vulture shook the guitar and the poor toad fell all the way to the gound and broke into pieces. |
| The vulture looked down and felt pity for the poor toad, so he flew home to get a needle and some thread. When he returned to where the toad lay broken he sewed the toad back into one piece.
"Dear toad," the vulture said. "Won't you come to our next party in the sky?" The toad hopped away without saying a word. To this day you can still see where the toad had his skin mended by the needle and thread. |
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