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Show ! The Frog's Fate. "Do you know, John," said Mrs. Peterlee, musingly, "that I always thought frogs were softj clammy sort of creatures." "So they are, dear." "Well, you may think so. You probably prob-ably know as little about them as I did. I know now that they must be built on the tortoise plan." , "What hard all over pshaw!" "Well, here's an account of a train being wrecked by striking a frog, and if a frog is as soft as you seem to think, I'd like you to explain that little circumstance." cir-cumstance." - And John suddenly began reading again; and there was a suspicious sort of snicker from behind his paper. Light. . .. |