THE FROG RENDEZVOUS 



1 HE pasture meets the pond all along 

 for a mile or so. It lays its lip to it 

 and drinks only here and there. It 

 drinks deepest of all in a cove. You 

 will hardly know where pasture leaves 

 off and cove begins, the two mingle so 

 gently. The pasture creatures here slip 

 down into the cove, and those of the 

 pond make their way well up into 

 the pasture. You yourself, approach- 

 ing the cove from the pasture side on 

 foot, will be splashing ankle deep in it 

 before you know you are coming to it 

 at all, so well do the pasture bushes, 

 standing to their knees in the cool 

 water, screen it from you. 



Coming from the pond side you might 

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