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Mike Sibley wrote: ↑Mon Apr 13, 2020 11:38 am So, we had one big lady toad with one little Mr Toad on her back with two hopeful Mr Toads waiting nearby.

Well, I felt the atmosphere started getting HOT in here!
Better do not continue Mike this way, or make some warning before you continue, some like - adults content only?

Well, firstly, you had me running to Google to look up "Meerschaum pipe" and "lucifer match". Who knew!! In French we say that tonight I will go to bed a little less ignorant than I was this morning, so thank you for that.

The first question that came to mind was what was Mr Holmes doing at the frog pond at 1 AM? But that may be a subject for another day. As for Mr Toad, aka Mr Frog, I think that we must consider Mrs Toad as a likely suspect.

I submit that Mrs Toad having been approached my Mr Frog masquerading as a toad and looking very natty in his formal attire, reacted to his preposterous charade by forcefully repelling his advances thereby inflicting the wound which you clearly observed on his lower leg. Both Mr Toads were content to have Mrs Toad handle the intruder, given their obviously inferior stature.

Once injured of course, the inevitable outcome was a slow decline leading to death but the question remains, was Mr Frog's demise hastened in any way by the resident toad family, or perhaps by a an intruder we have yet to identify?

I can sense some mystery tale going on in here

Laurene wrote: ↑Tue Apr 14, 2020 4:21 pm Once injured of course, the inevitable outcome was a slow decline leading to death but the question remains, was Mr Frog's demise hastened in any way by the resident toad family, or perhaps by an intruder we have yet to identify?

Very perceptive of you! I've no doubt the toads conspired to hasten Mr Frog's departure from this world, but...

Sherlock Holmes, being of a suspicious nature, habitually omits certain information. There thus remains a chance that the unsuspecting culprit will incriminate him/her self by making mention of the said omitted fact.

In this case, after chalking a line around the deceased Mr Frog and removing his body, the ARO (Amphibious Removal Operative) had his attention drawn to a movement in the bottom of the pond, perhaps a mere two feet further north from where the body was discovered.

On closer examination the ARO perceived the presence of a lurking entrepreneurial fish. It carried upon its person - two forward mounted and a second pair installed midway along its length - appendages of its own invention.

"My dear Watson," Holmes addressed his companion, "as a medical man, what do you deduce are the protuberances exhibited by the fish that we espy below us?"

"Well, Holmes," Watson began with some reluctance, "they appear... they appear to be... No. No, I'm quite certain of my findings, Holmes. That fish... that fish has LEGS!"

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We call him Neville, and he's the first newt we've ever found in our pond

ARO (Amphibious Removal Operative)

I love it

That fish... that fish has LEGS!"
We call him Neville, and he's the first newt we've ever found in our pond

My friend used to keep similar creatures in his fish tank
Obviously it was probably different type, but your description did remind me those I saw in past

Neville the Newt sounds like something or someone who recently escaped from Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, but then we would be straying from classic English literature to modern and I believe that to date at least this has only been successfully accomplished by Benedict Cumberbatch.

from classic English literature to modern

I feel like in English class room
Mike and you Laurene are using such words describing the Mr Frog tale, that I've never seen in my eyes, so I'm trying my best to catch up the story just right

I'm just goofing around Artur. Neville the Newt sounds like something from a Harry Potter book, don't you think?

Probably, yeah
To me it could be some of Captain Nemo story too - Neville
Kind of the mystery land he might had visited