THE FROG RENDEZVOUS 



convertible, and I have seen him when 

 completely surrounded by enemies be- 

 come a submarine and dive straight for 

 the bottom and stay there. He may 

 have an oxygen tank; anyway, he 

 does n't come up until he gets ready, 

 when he appears fresh and hearty and 

 ready for another waltz. 



A fellow surface sailor of his, or 

 rather skipper, is a different type of 

 bug. This is the water-strider, a veri- 

 table Cassius of the cove, with the lean 

 and hungry look of an overgrown, un- 

 derfed mosquito. There is no merry 

 waltz with his fellows about this 

 piratical-looking chap. He spreads his 

 four long legs like a Maltese cross, and 

 the tips of them are all that touch the 

 water. These dent it into minute dim- 

 ples, but do not penetrate, and his bug- 

 ship skips energetically about on the 

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