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FINDING NATURE’S TREASURES 
he is that the sun is behind the cloud, and that he hopes 
it will rain soon.” 
Marylee smiled at Uncle Jack. “I am not afraid of 
just a frog,” she said. “He must be a big one, though, 
and I wonder if he looks like the toads in our garden.” 
“We must walk very quietly,” said Uncle Jack, “or we 
shall scare him, and he will jump into the water.” 
As they tiptoed along, they looked for the bullfrog. 
Uncle Jack stopped suddenly. “He is sitting there on 
the bank under the leaves of that little weed. Can you 
see him?” whispered Uncle Jack, as he pointed ahead. 
They looked and looked. At first, they could not see 
the frog, because his back was dark green, and looked 
almost like the leaves. Finally, everyone saw him. 
“He is as big as my two fists,” whispered Buddy. 
“He looks something like a toad,” added Fred. “But 
he doesn’t have warts like a toad, and his legs seem 
longer.” 
The bullfrog saw them, and suddenly jumped into 
the water. He looked so long stretched out in the air, 
and he made such a big splash that Bess and Marylee 
both cried, “Oh!” 
“There may be some baby frogs in the shallow water 
at the edge of the creek where the grass is growing,” 
said Uncle Jack. 
Marylee put her hands into the water. “What is this 
funny stuff, Uncle Jack?” she asked as she lifted some¬ 
thing up. “It looks like white jelly, and it has some lit¬ 
tle round black things in it.” 
“Those are frogs’ eggs,” Uncle Jack told her. “Mother 
