V. CHIGWOOLTZ THE FROG. 



WAS watching for a bear one day 

 by an alder point, when Chigwooltz 

 came swimming in from the Hly 

 pads in great curiosity to see what 

 I was doing under the alders. He 

 was an enormous frog, dull green 

 with a yellowish vest — which 

 showed that he was a male — but 

 with the most brilliant ear drums I 

 had ever seen. They fairly glowed 

 with iridescent color, each in its 

 ring of bright yellow. When I 

 tried to catch him (very quietly, for the bear was 

 somewhere just above on the ridge) in order to 

 examine these drums, he dived under the canoe and 

 watched me from a distance. 



In front of me, in the shallow water along shore, 

 four more large frogs were sunning themselves among 

 the lily pads. I watched them carelessly while wait- 

 ing for the bear. After an hour or two I noticed 

 that three of these frogs changed their positions 



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