This week’s entry: Ol’ Rip The Horned Toad What it’s about ... with a live, top-hat-wearing frog inside. The gag is that, when no one’s around, the frog loudly belts out Tin Pan Alley ...

A horned toad is not a toad, nor a frog. It is a lizard ... it reared up on its hind legs and wanted to fight me. “I put him in a cigar box and saturated cotton with a teacupful of chloroform ...