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your wire or arming : but as for these, time, and a 

 little experience, will teach you better than I can 

 by words ; therefore I will for the present say no 

 more of this, but come next to give you some di- 

 rections how to bait your hook with a Frog. 



Ven. But, good Master, did you not say even 

 now, that some Frogs were venomous, and is it not 

 dangerous to touch them ? 



Pise. Yes, but I will give you some rules or 

 cautions concerning them : and first, you are to 

 note, that there are two kinds of Frogs ; that is to 

 say, if I may so express myself, a Flesh, and a Fish- 

 frog. By Flesh-frogs, I mean frogs that breed and 

 live on the land ; and of these there be several sorts 

 also, and of several colours, some being speckled, 

 some greenish, some blackish, or brown : the 

 Green-frog, which is a small one, is by Topsell 

 taken to be venomous ; and so is the Padock or 

 Frog-padock, which usually keeps or breeds on the 

 land, and is very large, and bony, and big, especi- 

 ally the she -frog of that kind ; yet these will some- 

 times come into the water, but it is not often : and 

 the Land-frogs are some of them observed by him, 

 to breed by laying eggs ; and others to breed of 

 the slime and dust of the earth, and that in winter 

 they turn to slime again, and that the next summer 

 that very slime returns to be a living creature ; this 

 is the opinion of Pliny. And * Car- 



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