FROGS. 



5' 





the water at a safe distance, in evident enjoyment of the 

 trick he has played, is a proof of this. 



That frogs are dainty eating is acknowledged by all who 

 have tried them. In this 

 respect their striking like- ,';'" 

 ness upon a small scale to 

 the human race has, doubt- 

 less, been advantageous to 

 them, for it is this which 

 has deterred the fastidious 

 from feasting on them, 

 the idea that th 

 is something 

 preaching cannil 

 ism in the consump- 

 tion of a 

 being sti 

 very strong 

 in the 

 unculti - 

 va t e 



human mind. 

 It has been 

 urged, as an 

 argument 

 against the 

 near relation- 

 ship of frogs .x-^.. 



to the human family, that they build no abodes for them- 

 selves ; but such abodes would be clearly superfluous in 

 the case of creatures who absolutely prefer being -wet 



