THE TREE FROG. 



Issue of the contest. 



were at last disengaged from the twig, and its 

 formidable adversary drew it down its throat by 

 suction. The frog passed some inches further 

 down the alimentary canal, and at last stuck, 

 forming a knob or knot at least six times as 

 thick as the snake, whose jaws and throat im- 

 mediately contracted, and resumed their former 

 natural shape, 



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