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The Toad, The Snake, and the Tramp Atoad lived in a pile of loose stones near a stone-bridge. It often hopped out among the weeds and on the road. It caught flies, bugs, and worms to eat. One day it was sunning itself on a flat stone near the railroad. By chance a snake came along that way, looking for its dinner. It spied the toad. It crept up and caught it. It swallowed it whole. The snake did not go away but coiled up and lay there in the sun. By and by a tramp came along, walking with a cane. He saw the snake and killed it with his stick. Then the tramp walked on the railroad and a locomotive ran over and killed him. The toad killed the bug. The snake killed the toad. The tramp killed the snake. And the locomotive killed the tramp. So that was the end of them.  ...

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