Class III. COMMON FROG. n 



ing pike ; but that they will injure, if not entirely 

 kill carp, is a fact indifputable, from the following 

 relation : a very few years ago, on fifliing a pond 

 belonging to Mr. P/V, of Encomb^ DorfetJhire 9 

 great numbers of the carp were found each with 

 a frog mounted on it, the hind legs clinging to 

 the back, the fore legs fixed in the corner of eacli 

 eye of the fifh, which were thir s and greatly waited, 

 teized by carrying fo difagreeable a load. Thefe 

 frogs we imagine to have been males difappointed 

 of a mate. 



The croaking of frogs is well known, and from 

 that in fenny countries they are diftinguifhed by 

 ludicrous titles, thus they are (tiled Dutch Nightin- 

 gales and B oft on IVaites ; even the Stygian frogs 

 have not efcaped notice, for Ariftophanes hath gone 

 farther, and formed a chorus of them. 



AlfAVcilJt xgyvuv TSHVCC ' 



Brekekex, coax, coax, 

 Brekekex, coax, coax, 

 The offspring of the pools and fountains. 



Yet there is a time of year when they be- Per iodic as 

 come mute, neither croaking nor opening their 

 mouths for a whole month : this happens in the 

 hot feafon, and that is in many places known 



* Comedy of the Frogs, 



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