An I can read(Level 2) Frog and Toad Are Friends 03 a lost botton

3- A Lost Button
Toad¹ and Frog went for a long walk.
They walked across a large meadow². They walked in the woods. They walked along the river.
At last they went back home to toad’s house.

“Oh, that,” said toad.
“Not only do my feet hurt, but I have lost one of the buttons on my jacket.”
“Don’t worry,” said Frog.
“We will go back to all the places where we walked. We will soon find your button.”
They began to look for the button in the tall grass.


“Here is your button!” cried Frog.
“That button is black, My button was white.”
Toad put the black button in his pocket.
A sparrow³ flew down.  “Excuse me,” said the sparrow.
“Did you lose a button? I found one.”
“That is not my button,” said toad.

“That button has two holes. My button had four holes.”
Toad put the button with two holes in his pocket.
They went back to the woods and looked on the dark paths.
“Here is your button,” said Frog.
“That is not my button,” cried Toad.
“That button is small. My button was big.” Toad put the small button in his pocket.
A raccoon came out from behind a tree.
“I heard that you were looking for a button,” he said.
“Here is one that I just found.”
“That is not my button!” wailed⁴ Toad.
“That button is square. My button was round.”
Toad put the square button in his pocket.

Frog and Toad went back to the river. They looked for the button in the mud⁵.
“Here is your button,” said Frog.
“That is not my button!” shouted toad.
“That button is thin. My button was thick..”
Toad put the thin button in his pocket. He was very angry.
 
He jumped up and down and screamed,
“The whole world is covered with buttons, and not one of them is mine!”
Toad ran home and slammed⁶ the door.
There, on the floor, he saw his white, four-holed, big, round, thick button.
“Oh,” said Toad.
“It was here all the time. What a lot of trouble I have made for Frog.’
 
Toad took all of the buttons out of his pocket.
He took his sewing box down from the shelf.
Toad sewed the buttons all over his jacket.
The next day Toad gave his jacket to Frog.
Frog thought that it was beautiful.
He put it on and jumped for joy.
None of the buttons fell off.
Toad had sewed them on very well.
 

1 toad   

n.蟾蜍，癞蛤蟆

参考例句：

• Both the toad and frog are amphibian.蟾蜍和青蛙都是两栖动物。
• Many kinds of toad hibernate in winter.许多种蟾蜍在冬天都会冬眠。

2 meadow   

n.草地，牧草地

参考例句：

• The children ran free across the meadow.孩子们在草地里自由地奔跑。
• The meadow is peopled with wild flowers.草地长满了野花。

3 sparrow   

n.麻雀，雀型鸟类

参考例句：

• The boy has got a hen sparrow.那男孩抓到一只雌雀。
• A sparrow may be small but it has all the vital organs.麻雀虽小,五脏俱全。

4 wailed   

v.哭叫，哀号( wail的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• She wailed over her father's remains. 她对着父亲的遗体嚎啕大哭。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
• The women of the town wailed over the war victims. 城里的妇女为战争的死难者们痛哭。 来自辞典例句

5 mud   

n.泥，泥浆

参考例句：

• The swimming pool is filled up with mud.游泳池里全是泥。
• A car ran past,spotting my coat with mud.一辆汽车驶过，给我的外衣溅上了泥点。

6 slammed   

v.砰地关上（门或窗）( slam的过去式和过去分词 )；用力一放；使劲一推；猛劲一摔

参考例句：

• He slammed on the brakes and the car juddered to a halt. 他猛踩刹车，汽车在剧烈震动中停下来。
• He walked out of the room and slammed the door. 他走出房间，猛地关上了房门。