THOSE OTHER ANIMALS. 



forms and ways. Frogs, no doubt, owe this loss of the 

 power of walking to the persistent habit of their early 

 ancestors of sitting in the water, a habit which, at first, 

 naturally resulted in lumbago, and finally deprived them 



- and their descendants of 

 the proper use of their 

 lower limbs. 



In the earlier ages of 

 the world there is strong evidence that frogs had not 

 lost this power ; and the learned may without difficulty 

 assign the origin of all the early legends of pixies, brownies, 

 and dwarfs to the accidental discovery by ignorant rustics 

 of communities of frogs, which had not, as yet, lost the 

 power of walking. It may, of course, be urged that even 

 admitting the existence of troops of little manikins 

 with human motions, this would not account for the 



