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But Bigings remembered what the old 

 angler told him who sold him Isaac Walton's 

 book, namely, that jack would take a frog 

 when they were very hungry. But the worst 

 of it was, he had not one, and did not know 

 where to get one. He had beef-steak in his 

 basket, which he thought he would try, but 

 he had not much opinion of it, and though he 

 told the others they were quite welcome to 

 try some if they pleased, yet he thought they 

 would do much better with frogs. Accord- 

 ingly, off they all went to a neighbouring 

 ditch to hunt for frogs, but they found them 

 very scarce. Bigings, however, secured one, 

 and a fine fellow he was, with his bright eyes 

 and yellow stripes ; but he was about five or 

 six times too large for the purpose, for if a 

 jack ever takes a frog, it is always a small one. 

 But this Bigings did not know ; it was a frog, 

 and that was all he seemed to care about. 

 The others hunted until they found another, 

 which was quite as large as that found by 

 Bigings ; they then gave up the search, 

 Rigings having stepped into the water up 

 to his knee after the frog, though Stickings 

 secured him, and therefore Rigings said he 

 would try a piece of beef-steak. They were 



