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FROG IN CLAY DEPOSIT. 
Meadow city folk, who visited Norwich ponds 
one Sunday recently, are much interested in a 
zoological find, says a Northampton correspond¬ 
ent of the Springfield (Mass.) Union. A frog 
was found in a lump of clay twenty-six feet 
under ground. It is dark green in color, nearly 
black and appears to be of a different species 
from any found at the present time in this 
vicinity. 
A well is being dug near one of the summer 
cottages and former County Commissioner 
Pease, of Springfield, has been watching the 
digging with much interest. He has noticed the 
different geological formations and when a 
large lump of clay was thrown out, broke it 
open, and to his astonishment a frog fell out. 
The frog was withered and looked as if it had 
been a “mummy” for ages. Mr. Pease held it 
in his hands for a few minutes and to his sur¬ 
prise there was a slight motion in one of the 
hind legs. He took it in the house and placed 
it in some water and the next morning the frog 
was as lively as a cricket. It was carefully ex¬ 
amined Sunday by Northampton people and is 
naturally an object of much curiosity. 
It has a nose that is much more pointed than 
that of ordinary frogs and from the second 
joint the leg is unusually long. The find has 
been reported to Prof. H. H. Wilder, of the 
Zoological Department of Smith College, and 
he is anxious to secure the impression in the 
lump of clay, for this would be conclusive evi¬ 
dence that the frog had been buried twenty-six 
feet under ground for ages. Similar cases have 
been reported, but they do not seem to be well 
authenticated. In the winter a frog buries him¬ 
self in the clay and mud in the bottom of a 
pond, and in the case of an upheaval or change 
in the topography _ of the earth’s surface the 
frog becomes imprisoned and lives in a torpid 
state for ages. 
AN ENGLISHMAN IN COLORADO. 
I had not been many hours in Denver ere a 
club introduction brought me face to face with 
an Englishman.who shares the distinction of be¬ 
ing in the political service of the State of Colo¬ 
rado. with the reputation of being the most en¬ 
thusiastic dry-fly man in the Western States. 
An Irishman there is, however, who wears a 
clerical coat, who gives him a close run for 
his money, and of whom many tales are told 
illustrating his keenness for a day with rod and 
line. By an eye-witness of the incident, and a 
lady at that, so that it is not a fisherman’s yarn, 
I was told the following story. The Dean was 
fishing a river in waders, when a false step put 
him into a hole in which he disappeared. Reap¬ 
pearing, he struck out for the bank, and as he 
landed, with all of his gear intact, he merely 
remarked: “Dear me! I have wet my glasses.” 
The mighty mountains of the State of Colo¬ 
rado look down upon as fine trout rivers as the 
world possesses. From the point of view of 
scenery there is nothing to be desired, and it is 
unnecessary to again state that the climate is 
ideal. _ Daylight finds one in camp on, say, the 
Gunnison River, a river of deep holes alternat¬ 
ing with gravelly ripples and shallows, just the 
thing for trout, except that the water is a trifle 
on the bright side, and that means hard work 
if one is going to get a big bag in the course 
of a morning’s sport: on the other hand, it 
allows the angler to feel and to know that he 
has had to exert his utmost skill in getting the 
beauties together, and there is a great deal of 
satisfaction in that. In Twin Lakes I have 
had fish up to 13 pounds in weight, which took 
as much landing as a 30-pound salmon on the 
Shannon. Weights of from 4 pounds to 10 
pounds are. if not matters of hourly occurrence, 
at least, sufficiently common to make the sport 
interesting. The biggest exploit I took a part 
in was doing my share towards putting together 
a bag of 100 fish during five hours’ sport one 
morning, the total weight of the bag being 238 
pounds. This was not a high average weight, 
it is true, but quality and beauty made ample 
compensation for that. 
Somebody mentioned the name of “Red- 
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