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Elfie made a series of astute observations about the tadpoles -- namely, that they didn't look anything like frogs, especially because they were missing some critical limbs. Elwood nodded, watching as the squirmy little beings congregated around a leaf, their bodies and tails pulsating with movement.

"You're right, they don't have any legs -- yet," he replied. "See their long tails, though? When they get bigger, their tails will get smaller and their legs will grow." The transformation was kind of surreal, but in a way, it reminded Elwood of his children and grandchildren -- it was hard to match the potato-like puppy blobs that they once were with the youths and adults they had become.