The Tree-Frog Amphibians 
given a good meal once a week. They will take bits 
of liver from forceps if it is wiggled in their faces and 
some learn to take it as soon as offered. 
REFERENCES 
Description of habits, THz Froc Book, Mary Dickerson. 
“From River Ooze to Tree-top,” Witp Lirz Near Home, 
D. L. Sharp. 
“Early Voices of Spring,” Famitiar Lir— In FIELD AND 
Forest, F. S. Mathews. 
“Animals that Set Traps,” and ‘A Turncoat of the Woods,” 
WIT oF THE WiItp, Ernest Ingersoll. 
THE SPRING PEEPERS 
A thousand tints of living green 
O’er hill and dale are flung; 
Vague, verdant mists thread purple woods 
With shadbush banners hung. 
The still pools in the meadow-lands 
Reflect the heaven’s own hue, 
Where lark songs, soft and lonely, 
Float upwards to the blue. 
There wells up from the sodden swamp 
The peepers’ chorus strong, 
An orchestra of froglet throats, 
Like bubbles filled with song, 
Which brings sweet comfort to the hearts 
That found the winter long; 
For Hylas’ music to the Spring 
Forever must belong. 
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