George Orwell: Some Thoughts on the Common Toad

Some Thoughts on the Common Toad [ - ]: 'Before the swallow, before the daffodil, and not much later than the snowdrop, the common toad salutes the coming of spring after his own fashion, which is to emerge from a hole in the ground, where he has lain buried since the previous autumn, and crawl as rapidly as possible towards the nearest suitable patch of water...'

Some Thoughts on the Common Toad