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insect it touches infallibly adheres, and is thus held fast till it is drawn into 
the mouth. 
BELLOW OF THE FROG, A TRUE PROGNOSTIC. 
The croaking of frogs is a familiar sound in all tropical and temperate 
climates, the penetrating trill of the green-back, the guttural carping of the tree 
toad, and the bellowing notes of the bull frog being alike familiar to our ears, 
on which account the frogs of Holland are called Dutch nightingales. So loudly 
do these creatures bellow that they may be heard a distance of three miles. 
The notes are only sounded by the male, and are loudest during the coupling 
season, though before wet weather they are most dissonant and in full exertion. 
The frog is a true weather prophet, invariably croaking as a prognostic of 
approaching rain. 
HOW FROGS EAT THE EYES OUT OF FISHES. 
As frogs adhere closely to the backs of their own species, so it has been 
found, by repeated experience, 
they will also adhere to the 
backs of fishes. Few that 
have ponds but know that 
these animals will fasten to the 
backs of carp, and stick their 
fingers in the corner of each 
eye. In this manner they are 
often caught together, the 
carp blinded and wasted away. 
Whether this proceeds from 
the desires of the frog, disap¬ 
pointed of its proper mate, or 
whether it be a natural enmity 
between frogs and fishes, I 
shall not take upon me to say. 
A story told us by Walton 
might be apt to incline us to 
the latter opinion. 
“As Dubravius, a bishop 
of Bohemia, was walking with 
a friend by a large pond in that 
country, they saw a frog, while a pike lay very sleepily and quiet by the shore 
side, leap upon his head, and the frog having expressed malice or anger by his 
swollen cheeks and staring eyes, did stretch out his legs, and embraced the 
pike’s head, and presently reached them to his eyes, tearing with them and his 
teeth those tender parts ; the pike irritated with anguish, moves up and down 
the water, and rubs himself against weeds, and whatever he thought might 
quit him of his enemy, but all in vain, for the frog did continue to ride tri¬ 
umphantly, and to bite and torment the pike till his strength failed, and then 
the frog sunk with the pike to the bottom of the water: then presently the frog 
appeared again at the top and croaked, and seemed to rejoice like a conqueror; 
after which he presently retired to his secret hole. The bishop that had beheld 
I. BUFO AQUA. 2. PEP A. 
