May 109, 1906.] 



A Yarn of a Crocodile. 
*Twas on the good ship Atholl, just arrived 
from Malabar, that a crocodile, with a winning 
smile, approached a hardy tar. She brought two 
eges for baggage, seemed exceedingly select, so 
the Cap said, “Hey! Come on! Belay!” and more 
to that effect. 
The reptile’s name was Lena and she sailed 
‘mid tropic isles, till—lo! her eggs acquired legs 
and walked like crocodiles. And Lena said, “A 
dinner grand I’ll give my babies wee,” and there- 
ee saw Ching Kan Yon (the Chinese boatswain 
1e). 
She followed him around the deck; the Chink 
caught on at last. He yelled “Belay!” and spent 
the day perched on. the mizzenmast. The reptile 
paused, then with the words, “My babies wee 
must sup,” the timber raw, with iron jaw, she 
started to chew up. 
The boatswain in the mizzenmast did to Con- 
fucius pray, but mighty Con did not get on (it 
was his busy day). And then the Chink in terror 
loudly screamed unto the croc: “Lun lound a 
while, dear clocodile; me gettee dleadful shock.” 
He screamed so that the third mate came (the 
gallant Mr. Luce), but ere he had that reptile 
bad a wave of ocean juice came pouring o’er the 
gunwales, catching Lena on the side, and with a 
erin she vanished in the briny deep, and died. 
And now the Atholl lies in port, from savage 
reptiles far; far, far away from Mandalay (or 
rather, Malabar). Beside the dock two reptiles 
wee in silence mourn their loss, while Ching Kan 
Yon has duly gone to thank the Mott street joss. 
—New York Times. 
The Frog’s Diet. 
One of my earliest recollections dates twenty 
years ago to the banks of the Cambridge River 
at Upton, Me. An angler was casting across its 
muddy waters for practice, before my awe- 
stricken eyes, now and then landing a 2-pound 
chub. As these flopped upon the grass a big 
- bullfrog made desperate attempts to swallow them 
whole. Yes. boys, a healthy frog will eat, or 
try to, any living thing that kicks which he is 
able to master. His whole restriction is that it 
must be alive or seem to be. I have fished for 
minnows with bob and sinker, and have seen a 
dozen frogs start at’ once from all around the 
pool straight at the bobbing cork, and have seen 
them wind up by taking in each other when the 
cork disappeared. 
My own pet two-ounce bull will take fly after 
fly from my fingers quick as a wink, but he won't 
touch a dead one unless I make it move. He 
will pick one off a sagittaria leaf six good inches 
above the surface, without a rest to start from. 
JoHN Preston TRUE. 
THE fish had jumped out of the frying pan into 
the fire. “The coals are not adulterated,’ it 
gasped, with its last breath, “and I just couldn't 
stand the cottonseed oil and axle grease they were 
frying me in.’—Chicago Tribune. 

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