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near human. They'll snigger ef you tickle 'em, 

 they'll cry ef you hoi' 'em and hurt 'em bad. 

 They plays jokes on one 'nuther arter dark, 

 an' laughs fit to shake they upper tooths out. 

 One mornin' I goes over t' Swamp Lake t' git 

 frogs f r bait " 



Then comes an astounding yarn. " Forty 

 millyun billyun frogs was trying to outdo one 

 'nuther," and among 'em was the big pink- 

 bellied frog. The story occupies many pages, 

 and it is a yarn ! I shall close up this story 

 with Fergy's description of two of those city 

 fellers whom Fergy generally calls " the other 

 man." 



" One time a young nat'ralis' feller come 

 here lookin' f'r mateeryul out'n which he were 

 goin' t' get rich, offered me $5 apiece for 

 woodcock aigs. I worked a week an' foun' 

 four aigs an' took 'em to him, an' says I, 

 ' Money in the han' an' licker in the glass.' 

 4 Them's jay-birds' aigs,' says he, an' went 

 inside the hotel. I'd a got him by the leg an' 

 swinged him roun' an roun' ef he'd a come out, 

 but he wouldn't come." 



" In Augus' a chap blowed in with a liv'ry 

 waggin all to hisself. They was th' driver an' 



