When it was not easy to find one already blue, the prudent tradesman kept a green frog in a blue glass vase for a few weeks, and brought it out as blue as you might wish.

White's Green Frog may, however, be in reality a frog of excellent moral worth: and I trust that Green's White Frog, if ever he is discovered, will be a moral frog too.

So argue also, probably, the popular poets, to whose "luxuriant fancy" everything suggests anything, and thought plays leap-frog with thought down one page and up the next, till one fancies at moments that they had got permission from the higher powers, before looking at the universe, to stir it all up a few times with a spoon.

The most unmoved member of the company was the redoubtable Tom himself, who, stretched upon the slippery black leather lounge, hoarse as a frog from much addressing of obdurate electors, was endeavoring to sing "Just Before the Battle, Mother," hitting the tune only in the most inconspicuous places!

And he that is wise and strong enough to create frogs in one way in every ditch at this moment, is he not wise and strong enough to create frogs by some other way, if he should choose, whether in Egypt of old, or now, here, this very day?

He entered upon an exhaustive account of the use of frogs for bait, and as he talked he constantly flung stones.

Before the judgment seat of Dionysos, as is recorded in The Frogs of Aristophanes, Aeschylus and Euripides engage in an interesting and instructive dispute.

You know, of course, that in Ireland there are no reptiles, save the little common lizard, Lacerta agilis, and a few frogs on the mountain-topshow they got there I cannot conceive.

" "The prospect of wedding a frog at the end of fifteen transmigrations," said the youths, "doth not in any respect commend itself to us.

Now theneight; for a noble frog like me!"

They pretended to send frogs over the land of Egypt, when every corner of it was swarming with that loathsome reptile.

'A company of Waggish Boys were watching of Frogs at the side of a Pond, and still as any of 'em put up their Heads, they'd be pelting them down again with Stones.

' An Englishman may possibly become reconciled to snails and frogs as food, but never, I should say, to goose's blood.

4. THE PERIOPLE, OR CORONARY FROG BAND.This is a continuation of the substance of the frog around the extreme upper surface of the hoof.

Dante looked; and saw a thousand of the rebel angels, like frogs before a serpent, swept away into a heap before the coming of a single spirit, who flew over the tops of the billows with unwet feet.

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.

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.

(Magnified to the same scale.) A, from proteus, a kind of newt; B, salamander; C, frog; D, frog after addition of acetic acid, showing the central nucleus; E, bird; F, camel; G, fish; H, crab or other invertebrate animal ]

A certain silent frog-like boy, a private student who plays no further part in this story, was working intently, looking more like a frog than usualhis expression modest with a touch of effort.

34.SECTION OF FROG THROUGH CORIUM AND HORN.

B. Middle, extending from the point of the frog to the commencement of its median lacuna.

With the bar removed, the outward movements of the frog under pressure are naturally rendered of no account, and a proper and intermittent expansion of the wall denied it.

It was enough to turn a frog against water.

That is a cry of alarm, a note of danger, and every frog within hearing understands its import.

they said, "are needed; They don't come on so fast as we did: Let's dock their tails; if that don't make 'em Frogs by brevet, the Old One take 'em!