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and tender, nutritious and delicately flavoured, and when 

 nicely cooked is one of the most dainty dishes that the 

 gustatory sense of an epicure could desire, surpassing in 

 flavour any of flsh, flesh, or fowl. They are cooked 

 in various ways, in all of which their extreme delicacy is 

 apparent. They can be made into a broth, fried, stewed, 

 or fricasseed, as the eater may desire ; but most people 

 who eat them prefer to have them fried. The manner in 

 which they are fried at the prominent American restau- 

 rants is very simple. The legs, after being well skinned, 

 are parboiled for about five minutes in slightly salted 

 water ; they are then plunged into cold water for a few 

 minutes, and are taken out to drain, after which they 

 are placed in a hot pan and fried in the usual way. The 

 broth can be made in the same way as chicken or beef 

 broth. 



The marshes between Detroit and Lake St. Clair in 

 North America are the resort of millions of frogs ; and it 

 is asserted that more frogs are sold in Detroit than in 

 any other city of its size. During the frog season heavy 

 shipments are made to New York, Boston, and other 

 Eastern cities. The Free Press, which pronounces the 

 commercial frog as suspicious as a wolf, as wild as a deer, 

 and as shrewd as a fox, describes the work of frog 

 hunting as follows : — 



" Most of the frogs are caught for this market by men. 

 One or two boys have some fame as successful frog 

 catchers, but it has been demonstrated that the average 

 boy lacks the necessary qualifications to make the busi- 

 ness of any profit to him. We know of one old fisher- 

 man and hunter who has followed the frog catching 

 business for the last twelve years, and he has sometimes 

 made it pay as high as 15 dollars per week. While there 

 is only one way of killing a goose there are several ways 

 of killing a frog. Frog hunting would be a great finan- 

 cial success if the jumpers would take a seat on a log 

 and permit a man to walk up and crack 'em over the 

 head with a club, but the frog is utterly opposed to any 

 such proceeding. His eagle eye detects the enemy afar 



