Atondido Stories
only a minute to finish my toilet."
The buzzard laid his violin carefully outside the door and
went inside the toad's house. The toad jumped through the win-
dow and hid himself inside the violin.
The buzzard waited and waited for the toad to get ready but
he did not hear a word from the toad. Finally he got tired of
waiting. He picked up his violin and started.
When he arrived at the party he was a trifle late but he ex-
plained how he had waited for the toad.
"How foolish to wait a minute for the toad," said his hosts.
"How could the toad ever get to a party in the sky? We just
asked him as a joke because he is such a great gad about. Lay
down your violin and come to the feast."
The buzzard laid down his violin. As soon as there was no
one looking, out hopped the toad. He was laughing from ear to
ear. "So they thought I would not come to the party! What a joke!
How surprised they will be to see me here!" he said.
There was nobody at the feast who was as gay as the toad.
When the buzzard asked how he arrived he said: "I'll tell you
some other day." Then he went on eating and dancing.
The buzzard did not have a very good time at the party. He
decided that he would go home early. He went away without
saying good-bye to his hosts and without taking his violin with
him.
At the end of the party the toad hopped inside the violin and
waited and waited for the buzzard to take him home. Nobody
picked up the violin and the toad began to be very much wor-
ried. He almost wished he had not come.
After a while the falcon noticed the violin. "That violin be-
longs to the buzzard. He must have forgotten to take it home. I'll
carry it back for him," he said.
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