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slightly, turning from time to time so as to warm the 

 entire body at nature's fireplace. But the fourth was 

 more deliberate and philosophical, thinking evidently 

 that if he simply sat still long enough the sun would 

 do the turning. When I came, about eleven o'clock, 

 he was sitting on the shore by a green stone, his fore 

 feet lapped by tiny ripples, the sun full on his back. 

 For three hours, while I watched there, he never 

 moved a muscle. Then the bear came, and I left 

 him for more exciting things. 



Late in the afternoon I came back to get some of 

 the big frogs for breakfast. Chigwooltz, he with the 

 ear drums, was the first to see me, and came pushing 

 his way among the lily pads toward the canoe. But 

 when I dangled a red ibis fly in front of him, he dived 

 promptly, and I saw his head come up by a black 

 root, where he sat, thinking himself invisible, and 

 watched me. 



Chigwooltz the second, he of the green stone and 

 the patient disposition, was still sitting in the same 

 place. The sun had turned round ; it was now warm- 

 ing his other side. His all-day sun bath surprised 

 me so that I let him alone, to see how long he would 

 sit still, and went fishing for other frogs. 



Two big ones showed their heads among the pads 

 some twenty feet apart. Pushing up so as to make 



