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SHARP EYES 



I have a little group of Japanese paper frogs playing 

 on guitars which, with very slight liberties, as shown 

 below, might serve as an illustration to such a Southern 

 poem, while in the foreground I have pictured a double 

 whistle, which I picked up in a Japanese bazaar, and 

 which produces the two veritable tones which the toad 

 voices from his inflated bagpipe. It is evident that the 

 land of the Mikado has a toad song similar to that of 

 Bufo Americanus. 



We hear of the toad " swelling its throat " in song 

 like a bird, but few of those who have seen the white 

 flashes at its mouth during that song have imagined 

 the true nature of the toad's bagpipe. 





