Millard County Chronicle | 1913-01-23 | Page 8 | Saw Beauty in Frog Songs

SAW BEAUTY IN FR0Q SONGS Their Volees, In Concert, Impresses! the Great Naturalist, John fculr, te Comment. The love songs of the frogs seemed hardly leas wonderful than those of the blrda. their musical notes Tarring from the sweet. tranquIL soothing, peeping and purring of the hylas to the awfully deep, low baas, blunt bellowing bel-lowing of the bull frogs. Some of the smaller species have wonderfully clear, sharp voices, and told na their good Bible Bftmcft In musical tones about aa plainly as the whlppoorwitL Isaac, laaae; Tacob. Tacob; Israel. Israel; shouted In sharp, ringing, far-reachng far-reachng tone, as If they bad all been i to school and severely drilled In elocution. elo-cution. In the still, warm, evenings, big. bunchy bull frogs bellowed. Drunk! Drunk! Drank! Jug-o'-rum, Jtg-o'-ram!" and early la the spring countless thoussnds ef th commonest I species, vp to the throat ta cold we- ' ter, sang In concert, making a mass of music, such aa it was. loud enooga to be heard nt ft distance of more tha 1 half ft mflejL Far, far apart from this load marsh tsustc Is that of the manly species ef by las, a sort of soothing. Immortal , filling the air like llfcht Joha Mulr. la the Atlantic