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creatures is sometimes difficult, if not impossible, 

 to explain. Requiring a photograph of a frog 

 on one occasion, and finding a specimen amongst 

 rushes and other coarse herbage, rendering it 

 difficult to figure the amphibian, I placed it on 

 the top of a lichen-clad rock. Immediately this 

 was done the creature staggered me by placing 

 its fore-feet in front of its eyes, as shown in 

 the illustration below. Directly my back was 

 turned to focus, the frog dropped its spoilt 

 child antics, leapt down from the rock and 

 away as hard as its gymnastic methods of pro- 

 gression could carry it. I brought it back again 

 to my prehistoric studio chair, but it was a long 

 time before it would again assume the interesting 

 attitude of bashfulness displayed at the com- 

 mencement of our interview. Whether the rep- 

 tile's strange behaviour had its origin in mere 



STRANGE ATTITUDE OF A FROG WHILST 

 BEING PHOTOGRAPHED. 



