Warren Petty kept a spotted toad in his desk, that got loose during the spelling test, which is why Ruthanne — who was copying her spelling words — shrieked from the front row, and so Warren, who swore solemnly that he had left it at home while all the while the toad sat blinking on the map that showed all eighty-eight counties, went red to the ears; whom no one could catch, because this sentence describes the very bottom of itself, and I could not help it.