THE FROG RENDEZVOUS 



near as you can come to it with type. 

 There are no characters that will ex- 

 press its guttural vehemence which 

 strikes you like a blow on the chest, or 

 its sympathetic resonance. Take your 

 violin, drop the G string to a tension so 

 low that it will hardly vibrate musically, 

 then twang it. That suggests the tone. 

 But you know it well enough without 

 description. 



Immediately there comes an answer- 

 ing chorus of " tu-g-gs," here, there, in 

 a score of places all along the shore line 

 and among the island clumps of bushes, 

 prelude of frog talk galore for a 

 moment or two, followed by brief 

 silence. Then, taking advantage of the 

 oratorical pause, an old-timer sets up a 

 tremendously hoarse and vibrant bel- 

 low. " A-hr-r-h-h-u-m-mm ! " he says, 

 " A-hr-r-h-h-u-m-mm ! " with the accent 

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