`` No , '' he replied , `` except that he seems in a great hurry . '' `` That 's just it , '' Jimmy returned promptly . `` Did you ever see him hurry unless he was frightened ? '' Peter confessed that he never had . `` Well , he is n't frightened now , yet just look at him go , '' retorted Jimmy . `` Says he has got a beautiful voice , and that he has to take part in the spring chorus at the Smiling Pool and that he is late . '' Peter looked very hard at Jimmy to see if he was fooling or telling the truth . Then he began to laugh . `` Old Mr. Toad sing ! The very idea ! '' he cried . `` He can sing about as much as I can , and that is not at all . '' Jimmy grinned . `` I think he 's crazy , if you ask me , '' said he . `` And yet he was just as earnest about it as if it were really so . I think he must have eaten something that has gone to his head . There 's Unc ' Billy Possum over there . Let 's ask him what he thinks . '' So Jimmy and Peter joined Unc ' Billy , and Jimmy told the story about Old Mr. Toad all over again . Unc ' Billy chuckled and laughed just as they had at the idea of Old Mr. Toad 's saying he had a beautiful voice .
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