One morning =Toad sat in bed.
"I have many things to do," he said.
"I will write them all down on a list
so that I can remember them."
=Toad wrote on a piece of paper:
A List of things to do today.
Then he wrote:
Wake up

"I have done that", said =Toad, and
he crossed out: Wake up.

Then =Toad wrote other things on the paper.
A list of things to do today.
Wake up.
Eat Breakfast.
Get Dressed.
Go to =Frog's house.
Take walk with =Frog.
Eat lunch.
Take nap.
Play games with =Frog.
Eat Supper.
Go to sleep.

"There," said =Toad.
"Now my day is all written down."
He got out of bed
and had something to eat.
Then =Toad crossed out: Eat Breakfast.

=Toad took his clothes
out of the closet
and put them on.
Then he crossed out: Get Dressed.
=Toad put the list in his pocket.

He opened the door and walked out into the morning.
Soon =Toad was at =Frog's front door.
He took the list from his pocket and crossed
out: Go to =Frog's house.

=Toad knocked at the door.
"Hello," said =Frog.
"Look at my list of things to do," said =Toad.
"Oh," said =Frog,
"that is very nice."
=Toad said, "My list tells me
that we will go for a walk."
"All right," said =Frog.
"I am ready."

=Frog and =Toad went on a long walk.
Then =Toad took the list from his pocket again.
He crossed out: Take Walk with =Frog.
Just then there was a strong  wind.
It blew the list out of =Toad's hand.
The list blew high up into the air.

"Help," cried =Toad!
"My list is blowing away.
What will I do without my list?"

"Hurry," said =Frog!
"We will run and catch it."
"No," shouted =Toad!
"I cannot do that."
"Why not," asked =Frog?
"Because," wailed =Toad,
"running after my list is not one
of the things that I wrote on my list
of things to do!"

=Frog ran after the list.
He ran over hills and swamps,
but the list blew on and on.
At last =Frog came back to =Toad.
"I am sorry," gasped =Frog,
"but I could not catch your list."
"Blah," said =Toad.

"I cannot remember any of the things
that were on my list of things to do.
I will just have to sit here
and do nothing," said =Toad.
=Toad sat and did nothing.
=Frog sat with him.
After a long time =Frog said,
"=Toad, it is getting dark.
We should be going to sleep now."

"Go to sleep," shouted =Toad!
"That was the last thing on my list!"
=Toad wrote on the ground with a stick:
Go to sleep.
Then he crossed out: Go to sleep.
"There," said =Toad.
"Now my day is all crossed out!"
"I am glad," said =Frog.
Then =Frog and =Toad went right to sleep.


=Frog was in his garden.
=Toad came walking by.
"What a fine garden you have, =Frog," he said.
"Yes," said =Frog. "It is very nice, but it was
hard work."
"I wish I had a garden," said =Toad.
"Here are some flower seeds.
Plant them in the ground," said =Frog,

"and soon you will have a garden."
"How soon," asked =Toad?
"Quite soon," said =Frog.

=Toad ran home.
He planted the flower seeds.
"Now seeds," said =Toad,
"start growing."
=Toad walked up and down a few times.
The seeds did not start to grow.

=Toad put his head close to the ground
and said loudly,
"Now seeds, start growing!"
=Toad looked at the ground again.
The seeds did not start to grow.

=Toad put his head
very close to the ground and shouted,"
"Now seeds, start growing!"
=Frog came running up the path.
"What is all this noise," he asked?
"My seeds will not grow," said =Toad.
"You are shouting too much,"
said =Frog. "These poor seeds are
afraid to grow."
"My seeds are afraid to grow," asked =Toad?

"Of course," said =Frog.
"Leave them alone for a few days.
Let the sun shine on them,
let the rain fall on them.
Soon you seeds will start to grow."

=Toad looked out of his window.
"Drat," said =Toad!
"My seeds have not started to grow.
They must be afraid of the dark."
=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 read a long story to his seeds.

All the next day =Toad sang songs to his seeds.
And all the next day =Toad read poems to his seeds.
And all the next day =Toad played music to his seeds.

=Toad looked at the ground.
The seeds still did not start to grow.
"What shall I do," cried =Toad?
"These must be the most frightened seeds
in the whole world!"
Then =Toad felt very tired, and he fell asleep.

"=Toad, =Toad, wake up," said =Frog.
"Look at your garden!"
=Toad looked at his garden.
Little green plants were coming up out of the ground.

"At last," shouted =Toad,
"my seeds have stopped being afraid to grow!"
"And now you will have a nice garden, too," said =Frog.
"Yes," said =Toad, "but you were right, =Frog.
It was very hard work."

=Toad baked some cookies.
"These cookies smell very good," said =Toad.
He ate one.
"And they taste even better," he said.
=Toad ran to =Frog's house.
"=Frog, =Frog," cried =Toad,
"taste these cookies that I have made."

=Frog ate one of the cookies.
"These are the best cookies I have
ever eaten," said =Frog!

=Frog and =Toad ate many cookies,
one after another.
"You know, =Toad," said =Frog,
with his mouth full,
"I think we should stop eating.
We will soon be sick."

"You are right," said =Toad.
"Let us eat one last cookie,
and then we will stop."
=Frog and =Toad ate one last cookie.
There were many cookies left in the bowl.
"=Frog," said =Toad,
"let us eat one very last cookie,
and then we will stop."
=Frog and =Toad ate one very last cookie.

"We must stop eating," cried =Toad
as he ate another!
"Yes," said =Frog,
reaching for a cookie,
"we need will power."
"What is will power," asked =Toad?

"Will power is trying hard not to do something
that you really want to do," said =Frog.
"You mean like trying not to eat all of these
cookies," asked =Toad?
"Right," said =Frog.

=Frog put the cookies in a box.
"There," he said.
"Now we will not eat any more cookies."
"But we can open the box," said =Toad.
"That is true," said =Frog.

=Frog tied some string around the box.
"There," he said.
"Now we will not eat any more cookies."
"But we can cut the string and open the box," said =Toad.
"That is true," said =Frog.

=Frog got a ladder.
He put the box up on a high shelf.
"There," said =Frog.
"Now we will not eat any more cookies.

"But we can climb the ladder and take the
box down from the shelf and cut the string
and open the box," said =Toad.
"That is true," said =Frog.
=Frog climbed the ladder and took the box
down from the shelf.
He cut the string and opened the box.

=Frog took the box outside.
He shouted in a loud voice,"
Hey birds, here are cookies!"
Birds came from everywhere.
They picked up all the cookies
in their beaks and flew away.
"Now we have no more cookies to eat,"
said =Toad sadly.
"Not even one."

"Yes," said =Frog,
"but we have lots and lots of will power."
"You may keep it all, =Frog," said =Toad.
"I am going home now to bake a cake."

=Frog and =Toad were reading a book together.
"The people in this book are brave," said =Toad.
"They fight dragons and giants and they are
never afraid."
"I wonder if we are brave," said =Frog.
=Frog and =Toad looked into a mirror.

"We look brave," said =Frog.
"Yes, but are we," asked =Toad?

=Frog and =Toad went outside.
"We can try to climb this mountain,"
said =Frog. "That should tell us if we are brave."
=Frog went leaping over rocks, and =Toad came
puffing up behind him.

They came to a dark cave.
A big snake came out of the cave.
"Hello lunch," said the snake when he saw =Frog and =Toad.
He opened his wide mouth.
=Frog and =Toad jumped away.
=Toad was shaking.
"I am not afraid," he cried!

They climbed higher, and they heard a loud noise.
Many large stones were rolling down the mountain.
"It's an avalanche," cried =Toad!

=Frog and =Toad jumped away.
=Frog was trembling.
"I am not afraid," he shouted!

They came to the top of the mountain.
The shadow of a hawk fell over them.
=Frog and =Toad jumped under a rock.
The hawk flew away.

"We are not afraid," screamed =Frog and =Toad
at the same time!
Then they ran down the mountain very fast.
They ran past the place where they saw the
avalanche.
They ran past the place where they saw the snake.
They ran all the way to =Toad's house.

"=Frog, I am glad to have a brave friend like you," said =Toad.
He jumped into the bed and pulled the covers over his head.
"And I am happy to know a brave person like you, =Toad,"
said =Frog.
He jumped into the closet and shut the door.
=Toad stayed in the bed, and =Frog stayed in the closet.

They stayed there for a long time just feeling very brave together.

=Toad was asleep and he was having a dream.
He was on a stage, and he was wearing a costume.
=Toad looked out into the dark.
=Frog was sitting in the theater.

A strange voice from far away said,"
Presenting the greatest toad in all the world!"

=Toad took a deep bow.
=Frog looked smaller as he shouted,
"Hooray for =Toad!"
"=Toad will now play the piano very well," said the strange voice.

=Toad played the piano and he did not miss a note.
"=Frog," cried =Toad,
"can you play the piano like this?"
"No," said =Frog.
It seemed to =Toad that =Frog looked even smaller.

"=Toad will now walk on a high wire, and he will not fall down,"
said the voice.

=Toad walked on the high wire.
"=Frog," cried =Toad,
"can you do tricks like this?"
"No," peeped =Frog, who looked very, very small.

"=Toad will now dance, and he will be wonderful,"
said the voice.

"=Frog, can you be as wonderful as this," said =Toad
as he danced all over the stage?
There was no answer.
=Toad looked out into the theater.
=Frog was so small that he could not be seen or heard.
"=Frog," said =Toad, "where are you?"
There was still no answer.
"Frog, what have I done," cried =Toad?

Then the voice said, "The greatest toad will now."
"Shut up," screamed =Toad!
"=Frog, =Frog, where have you gone?"
=Toad was spinning in the dark.
"Come back, =Frog," he shouted.
"I will be lonely!"

"I am right here," said =Frog.
=Frog was standing near =Toad's bed.
"Wake up, =Toad," he said.
"=Frog, is that really you," said =Toad?
"Of course it is me," said =Frog.
"And are you your own right size," asked =Toad?

"Yes, I think so," said =Frog.
=Toad looked at the sunshine coming through the
window.
"=Frog," he said, "I am so glad that you came over."
"I always do," said =Frog.

Then =Frog and =Toad ate a big breakfast.
And after that they spent a find, long day together.