146 EDGE OF THE JUNGLE 



vere, and thus was established beyond doubt her 

 close relationship to Gawain. 



During that first day, within three hours, dur- 

 ing most of which I watched her closely, Guine- 

 vere's change in color was beyond belief. For 

 an hour she leaped from time to time; but after 

 that, and for the rest of her life, she crept in 

 strange unfroglike fashion, raised high on all 

 four limbs, with her stubby tail curled upward, 

 and reaching out one weird limb after another. 

 If one's hand approached within a foot, she saw 

 it and stretched forth appealing, skinny fingers. 



At two o'clock she was clad in a general cinna- 

 mon buff; then a shade of glaucous green began 

 to creep over head and upper eyelids, onward 

 over her face, finally coloring body and limbs. 

 Beneath, the little pollyfrog fairly glowed with 

 bright apricot orange, throat and tail amparo 

 purple, mouth green, and sides rich pale blue. 

 To this maze of color we must add a strange, 

 new expression, born of the prominent eyes, to- 

 gether with the line of the mouth extending 

 straight back with a final jeering, upward lift; 

 in front, the lower lip thick and protruding, 

 which, with the slanting eyes, gave a leering, 

 devilish smirk, while her set, stiff, exact posture 



