'They are frogs,' says a third, who is ready to chop any amount of logic in favor of his system of frogology, and hereupon columns of argument, and pages of learned discussion, have been held over the identity of the jolly peepers of the spring-time.

Every other sound was hushed; the voices of the night-birds were stilled; even the frogs along the shore suspended their bellowing, and all nature seemed listening to the new harmony that thus fell like enchantment upon the repose of midnight.

The frogs resumed their roaring, the night-birds lifted up their voices; the raccoon called to his fellow, and was answered away off in the forest; the pile-driver hammered away at his stake, the old owl hooted solemnly from his perch, and we retired to our tents to talk over the romance of our serenade, and to dream of Ole Bull and the Swedish Nightingale.

Insects now enrich the air, frogs pipe cheerily in the shallows, soon followed by the ouzel, which is the first bird to visit a glacier lake, as the sedge is the first of plants.

Of course fishes cannot get into them, and this is generally true of nearly every glacier lake in the range, but they are all well stocked with happy frogs.

How did the frogs get into them in the first place?

It was very quiet here, save for the occasional jangle of the cow-bells and the far-off fifing of frogs in the marsh below.

*** Citizens of Clarkson, Washington, U.S.A., have appealed to the Government to protect them against a plague of frogs.

Thus if duels are spoken of he says, ods triggers and flints; if clothes, ods frogs and tambours; if music, ods minnums [minims] and crotchets; if ladies, ods blushes and blooms.

Those, however, which swarm with frogs, toads, newts, efts, &c., are harmless, and may be safely used for culinary purposes.

Turtles, frogs, and lizards are considered creatures of evil, and are never eaten.

I was wandering about the Consul's court, gazing at the curiosities scattered around, enough to have set up any European museum with an Egyptian branch, and particularly, I remember, at a lame mummy's crutch, found with him in his coffin, on which it is possible the original owner hopped away from the plague of frogs.

He gave them lodgings for the night, and honest bread and cheese, but for his own supper he took frogs out of his bosom, and roasted these in the coals.

Dicky had taken the frogs' eggs from the edge of a pool on his grandfather's farm.

Big frogs and little frogs, by Susan Ertz.

Big frogs and little frogs, by Susan Ertz.

It would almost appear as if monkeys had some notion of zoological affinities, for those kept by Brehm exhibited a strange, although mistaken, instinctive dread of innocent lizards and frogs.

There are also a clean race of frogs and tortoises, and a few mussels in it; muskrats and minks leave their traces about it, and occasionally a travelling mud-turtle visits it.

Specially interesting in this connection are the strictures passed on Euripides in the passage of the Frogs of Aristophanes to which allusion has already been made.

183. 'To banish anxious thought and quiet pain, Read Homer's frogs, or my more trifling strain.' 434.

Their only food was frogs' legs, which they prepared themselves, and the black bread and curdled milk which the country afforded.

Does she like to stay over in that queer place you told me of, fussing around with those frogs?" Kate had been rash enough to endeavor to explain something of the Fulhams' theories regarding the mechanistic conception of life.

Some in the reeds Of the black mountain-lake, With frogs for their watch-dogs, All night awake.

I could hear only the creaking of a dead limb high above us, and the bellow of frogs in the near pond.

"Admitting that, by keeping mid-channel, she goes clear of White Stone and Frogs," he said, giving to Throgmorton's its vulgar name, "he must be a wizard, to know that the Stepping-Stones lie directly across his course, and that a vessel must steer away northerly, or bring up on rocks that will as surely hold him as if he were built there.