OUTDOORS 



and in ponds and wet, boggy meadows. 

 Sometimes they are caught on a hook by fish- 

 ing for them with a piece of red flannel, 

 which excites their wrath when it is waved 

 before their noses. The adage regarding " a 

 red rag to a bull " seems to hold good in the 

 case of a bull-frog. But the two most com- 

 mon ways by which the hunters take the 

 frogs for the market are by spearing and 

 shooting. Spearing frogs is an art, and is 

 practised in the marshes and around the shal- 

 low shores of the lakes, where frogs are 

 plentiful. The hunter must necessarily be a 

 light-weight man, or a boy, considering the 

 craft he employs in the business. This is a 

 canoe or the smallest or lightest possible 

 duck-boat, pointed at both ends, and able to 

 run smoothly in a few inches of water. A 

 double-bladed paddle is dipped into the water 

 from side to side, and the little boat glides 

 over the surface as smoothly as a water-bug. 

 The hunter sits in the centre of the boat 

 and conducts operations from the right side. 

 He has a small box in front of him and a 

 short, sharp-bladed knife lying on the box. 

 This knife is used to cut off the saddles as the 

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