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different ones vary very much, but the same 

 frog will differ from day to day, the change 

 being apparently due to the amount of moisture 

 present in its surroundings. Toads too can 

 change colour, and one, which the first day 

 was a pretty mixture of buffs and browns, 

 was on the second, after being kept for the 

 night under a flower-pot, almost black in tint. 

 I then returned it to the spot from which it 

 came, and on the third day it had faded back 

 to its original hues. 



Pretty as are the markings of the common 

 frog, they are nothing to those of the edible 

 frog, which is beautifully decorated with bright 

 green on its back. It is about the same size, 

 and in most other respects is very like the 

 <!ommon frog; but the bright green at once 

 distinguishes the two kinds, not that any one 

 is likely to confuse them, as the edible frog is 

 not plentiful in the greater part of England, 

 being only found in one or two places in the 

 eastern counties. It is, as may be guessed 

 from its name, the kind which is cooked and 

 eaten abroad, and which is said to be so 

 excellent; but I cannot speak from personal 

 experience, as the two or three edible frogs which 

 I have had were far too interesting and amusing 



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