Out of Context

All of a sudden the weather’s hot.

The Adventures of Old Mr. Toad
Thornton W. (Thornton Waldo) Burgess

“Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!” laughed Old Mr. Toad. “My tongue never is in the way, and it’s the handiest tongue in the world. I’ll show it to you.”

To show one’s tongue, as you well know,
Is not considered nice to do;
But if it were like Mr. Toad’s
I’d want to show it–wouldn’t you?

I’m quite sure you would. You see, if it were like Old Mr. Toad’s, it would be such a wonderful tongue that I suspect you would want everybody to see it. Old Mr. Toad thinks his tongue the most satisfactory tongue in the world. In fact, he is quite sure that without it he couldn’t get along at all, and I don’t know as he could. And yet very few of his neighbors know anything about that tongue and how different it is from most other tongues. Peter Rabbit didn’t until Old Mr. Toad showed him after Peter had puzzled and puzzled over the mysterious way in which bugs and flies disappeared whenever they happened to come within two inches or less of Old Mr. Toad.