CHAPTER VII 



THE living things that have come down to this earth: 

 Attempts to preserve the system: 



That small frogs and toads, for instance, never have fallen from 

 the sky, but were "on the ground, in the first place"; or that there 

 have been such falls "up from one place in a whirlwind, and 

 down in another." 



Were there some especially froggy place near Europe, as there is 

 an especially sandy place, the scientific explanation would of course 

 be that all small frogs falling from the sky in Europe, come from 

 that center of frogeity. 



To start with, I'd like to emphasize something that I am permitted 

 to see because I am still primitive or intelligent or in a state of 

 maladjustment: 



That there is not one report findable of a fall of tadpoles from 

 the sky. 



As to "there in the first place": 



See Leisure Hours, 3-779, for accounts of small frogs, or toads, 

 said to have been seen to fall from the sky. The writer says that 

 all observers were mistaken: that the frogs or toads must have 

 fallen from trees or other places overhead. 



Tremendous number of little toads, one or two months old, that 

 were seen to fall from a great thick cloud that appeared suddenly 

 in a sky that had been cloudless, August, 1804, near Toulouse, 

 France, according to a letter from Prof. Pontus to M. Arrago. 

 (Comptes Rendus, 3-54.) 



Many instances of frogs that were seen to fall from the sky. 

 ("Notes and Queries," 8-6-104) ; accounts of such falls, signed by 

 witnesses. ("Notes and Queries," 8-6-190.) 



Scientific American, July 12, 1873: 



"A shower of frogs which darkened the air and covered the ground 

 for a long distance is the reported result of a recent rainstorm at 

 Kansas City, Mo." 



As to having been there "in the first place": 



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