IN FEATHERS AND FUR. 63 
Papa Frog shine out. He carefully takes each egg and sticks it to 
his own hind legs. When he has fifty or sixty thus disposed of, he 
hunts up a quiet retreat — some deep hole, generally — and there 
he stays with his young family, till they are ready to hatch out, 
when he takes to the water with them. This most excellent Papa 
is called the Nurse Frog. 
Frogs have also been used in medicine. Some of the old 
writers gravely tell that frogs boiled in vinegar are good for 
toothache. 
