166 Fishing in North Carolina. 



and the female has a softer voice than the male, 

 otherwise, it is difficult to distinguish the boss 

 from the servant. What person does not enjoy 

 a camp meeting of frogs in the country on a hot 

 summer night ? 



I have met with a great many toads in my 

 rambles after turtles; because I found them to 

 be pate de foi gras and caviar, too, for the turtle. 

 In truth, I established a market for toads ia the 

 little town of Angier, IT. C, where the boys 

 would bring them to me in boxes, buckets and 

 pockets; at so much per dozen. The market 

 price would vary according to supply and de- 

 mand. It is a mistake about toads causing Avarts 

 — they do nothing of the kind, and are perfectly 

 ]) armless. 



I got over five hundred on hand at one time, 

 and kept them together in a half-hogshead 

 whence they escaped by linking together, like 

 tlie play-soldiers at San -Tuan Hill, and scaling 

 the side of tlie tub. 



I could feed them all right on flies and 

 worms ; and it was as amusing to see them eat 

 as it is to obseiwe in awe a graduate of one of 



