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frog in tall grass and trying to grab him be- 

 tween jumps. 



These frogs make excellent bait for big- 

 mouth bass, and if the linen sack is kept wet, 

 they will live and be lively for several days. 

 The bull-frog is not good bait, being too 

 large to be engulfed, and too heavy to cast 

 successfully, when at his full growth. 



It is a pity to shoot and spear the true 

 bull-frogs, for their sombre bellowing in the 

 evening is one of the oddest sounds in nat- 

 ure. When the dusk threads of twilight are 

 woven in with the afterglow of the west, the 

 bull-frogs sound sonorous chords, which re- 

 verberate along and over the reeds and rushes, 

 far-reaching down the night. Long ago, they 

 say, when Pan was driven from the marshes, 

 he called the frogs to him. They were his 

 favorites, 



" And all around him on the wet, 



Cool earth the frogs came up, and, with a smile, 

 He took them in his hairy hands and set 

 His mouth to theirs awhile, 



" And blew into their velvet throats; 



And ever from that hour the frogs repeat 

 The murmur of Pan's pipes; the notes 

 And answers strange and sweet/* 



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