Class III. C O M M O N F R O G. $^ 



ing pike ; but that they will injure, if not entirely 

 kill carp, is a fad indifputable, from the following 

 relation : a very few years ago, on filhing a pond 

 belonging to Mr. P/V, of Encomb^ Dcrfetjhlre^ 

 great numbers of the carp were found each with 

 a frog raounted on it, the hind legs clinging to 

 the back, the fore legs fixed in the corner of each 

 eye of the filh, which were thin and greatly wafted^ 

 teized by carrying fo difagreeable a load. Thefe 

 frogs we imagine to have been males difappointed 

 of a mate. 



The croaking of frogs is well known, and from 

 that in fenny countries they are diftinguifhed by 

 ludicrous titles, thus they are ftiled Dutch Nightin- 

 gales and Bofton Waites ; even the Stygian frogs 

 have not efcaped notice, for Ariftophanes hath gonf? 

 farther, and formed a chorus of them. 



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Brekekex, coax, coaTr, 

 Brekekex, coax, coax, 

 The offspring of the pools and fountain 3, 



Yet there is a time of year when they be- PERiopicAt 

 come mute, neither croaking nor opening their ^LENgg. 

 mouths for a whole month : this happens in the 

 hot feafon, and that is in many places known 



♦ Qomedy of the Frogs ^ 



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