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===The Rain of Toads===

'''Abstract'''

Toads of varying size and states of maturity rain down from a clear sky over a small city in the American Midwest.  Some survive their impact with the ground; many do not.  The team explores first the strange nature of the toads themselves – none are native to the North American continent, several are of poisonous or hallucinogenic biology – and then theories as to their possible origins and the mythio-religious implications of their fall.  Several experiments are made, using balloons, to explore the upper atmosphere, but none are successful.  The team then compares this rain with several similar ones throughout the world, some composed exclusively of toads, some of toads mixed with other vermin and some of other vermin alone.  Particular comparison is made with an earlier journal article (cf. Autumn, 1890) which described the rain of jellied eggs of unknown origin from the skies over Rhode Island that summer.  Though the few eggs that survived soon hatched into batrachian forms, none seem to have survived predation by local fauna.

'''About the Explorers'''

Lewis Jenyns is a biblical scholar from Cambridge specializing in plague stories.  R.P. Greg is an atmospherist from Baltimore who successfully predicted their 1904 blizzard.  Both have been with the Lazarus Trust for years.  Though retired from field work, they returned for this expedition due to earlier interest in the case (again, cf. Autumn, 1890).