TADPOLES AND FROGS. 
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kind of creature laid them. You may take some 
of them home, and keep them in water until they 
hatch, and then you will find out for yourself 
what they are/' 
4. Harry kept the eggs for several days/ until, 
at last, a little black creature, with rounded head 
and flat tail, 
wriggled out of 
each of them. 
5. Even then 
Harry did not 
know what they 
were; they were 
the oddest little 
animals he had 
ever seen. They 
flapped their 
tails to and fro 
to drive them- 
selves through the water, and when they rested 
they held on to the w^eeds by little suckers on 
their heads. 
6. " They are tadpoles, Harry,'' said Mr. Green. 
I want you to take notice of them every day, 
for I think they will amuse and surprise you." 
Very soon Harry saw that the tadpoles had 
something growing out from each side of the 
neck. 
Tadpoles. 
