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that it was to be found in one place in that town, but its 
exact location was kept secret. I came home with a re¬ 
newed determination to find it if it was to be found here. 
Consequently sister and I hailed it with joy when we found 
it on our own land. 
Minnie A. Coeburn. 
Hollis, N. H., October 8, 1901. 
A Frog’s Tidbit. 
BY EDWARD J. BURNHAM. 
In a meadow, where a rivulet joins a larger brook, a 
muskrat had its summer home. The careful farmer had 
mowed the banks so thoroughly that there was not a bush 
to shelter me. Accordingly I brought some alders from a 
distance, planted them in the earth, and hid myself in the 
artificial thicket. 
It was a beautiful September afternoon. The muskrat, 
evidently the mother of a family and busied with household 
duties, hurried back and forth; some gnats danced in the 
sunshine; a dragonfly, one of the last of the year, flew laz¬ 
ily up and down the course of the stream ; directly opposite, 
a green frog sat motionless, hidden and protected by the 
green grass. The muskrat had just returned with an ap¬ 
ple from another foraging trip, muddying the brook in its 
clumsy haste, when the frog, with a little cry, such as it 
sometimes makes when escaping to the water from an ap¬ 
proaching fisherman, leaped fully two feet in the air, 
straight at the passing dragonfly. It was a close call, but 
iEschna is quick of eye and strong of wing, and the frog 
sank back in the grass to swallow his disappointment, since 
he had nothing else to swallow. 
For fully half an hour the frog sat perfectly motionless, 
seemingly indifferent to the dragonfly, which now flew at 
