Frogs and Toads 



careful male nurse. He is provided with a spacious pouch 

 on the front portion, which is really the lower portion of 

 his body. In this pouch he carries the eggs of his wife 

 wherever he goes. The young hatch in the father's pouch, 

 and not till they are able to face the world and its troubles 

 is he relieved of his living burden. 



For the rest there is little to add concerning the ingenuity 

 of fishes, unless we say a word for the pilot-fish, who leads 

 the shark to his food and receives a well-deserved measure 

 of protection in return for his services, or for the little 

 shooting-fish, which captures insects on which it feeds by 

 squirting a tiny jet of water at them as they settle on 

 leaves by the side of his home. 



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