Mr. Frog had a time listening to the remarks of his callers, who had no idea that he was so near at hand. And as the weather grew colder, they began to shiver and their voices began to shake. And by the time it was almost dark all the waiting company were quite discouraged.  
"I'll never be able to stay out to-night!" Chirpy Cricket declared. "I'm so cold now that I can scarcely move."
 
And it was the same with everybody else. Even Freddie Firefly complained that his light didn't warm him in the least. And he said he would have to go home at once.
 
"Mr. Crow will be very angry with us to-morrow when he learns we haven't called on Kiddie Katydid," somebody remarked. And a fell upon the company. But Chirpy Cricket had a happy thought, which made them all feel better.
 
"Kiddie Katydid won't stay out of doors on a night like this!" he suddenly exclaimed. "He'll find some place to creep into. And we wouldn't be able to find him in Farmer Green's dooryard even if we tried to."
 
"That's so!" Chirpy's companions shouted.
 
"Then there's no need of our freezing here any longer, waiting for that wretched tailor, Mr. Frog!" said Freddie Firefly.
 
And somehow, Mr. Frog did not smile quite so widely over that speech.
 
Nevertheless, he was pleased, on the whole. And not waiting to watch the shivering party leave the neighborhood, he set off at once toward Farmer Green's house, making first for the river, which ran near the farm buildings, because Mr. Frog did not like to travel by land.
 
Because the air was cool, the water felt all the warmer. And by the time Mr. Frog had reached his journey's end he was almost overheated. Besides, as he noticed, it was not so cold in Farmer Green's dooryard as it had been by the .
 
He stopped, for a few moments, to cool himself in the watering-trough. And then he briskly on to the front yard.............