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I have heard the 

 woods vocal with 

 it. It seemed to 

 proceed from ev- 

 ery stump and tree 

 about one. Ordina- 

 rily it is heard only 

 at intervals through 

 the woods. Approach 

 never so cautiously the 

 spot from which the 



sound proceeds and it instantly ceases, and you may 

 watch for an hour without hearing it again. 'Is it a 

 frog,' I said 'the small tree-frog, the piper of the 

 marshes repeating his spring note but little changed 

 amid the trees?' Doubtless it is, but I must see him in 

 the very act. So I watched and waited, but to no pur- 

 pose, till one day, while bee-hunting in the woods, I 

 heard the sound proceeding from the leaves at my feet. 

 Keeping entirely quiet, the little musician presently 

 emerged, and lifting himself up on a small stick, his 

 throat palpitated, and the plaintive note again came 

 forth. * The queerest frog that ever I saw,' said a 



