Fishing in North Carolina. 167 



our athletic colleges handle a knife at the dinner 

 table. 



I tried the frogs with shot and became con- 

 vinced that the humorist unwittingly lied when 

 he told the story about loading a frog with shot 

 in order to win a race. The frog will not take 

 lead. He cannot do so because of the shape of 

 his tongue — ^the end of which is back-forked. 

 He does not use his mouth to catch food, but 

 only as a guard-house until the stomach is ready 

 for the trial. In other words, the tongue acts as 

 constable, the mouth is the jail, and the stomach 

 is the judge aiid beneficiary. The frog's tongue 

 is a very slender ligament about two inches in 

 length, and is shaped like the pointed end of a 

 fish-hook with the bard which brings the object 

 home. 



Covered with saliva, he darts this tongue out 

 so quickly that the eye can hardly see it, hits a 

 fly and runs him in ; winks wisely and is ready 

 for another fly. To be surrounded by a dozen 

 toads, with worms wriggling and crippled flies 

 hopping, is greater amusement than a revival 

 affords, and is more entertaining than the best 

 . circus. '- - 



