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Show i i'jazz" mm y HAjraL j j McUinnis pothers fi .Glade-1? . f ; water, f ex, Have "Bull- ' f ! . frog Quartette.' ' 1 1 j ! DISCOVERED AT CAMP ! ! i;. If . , 1 Boys jeach , Amphibians to 6ln)j , ! ' Neighbors Gather Nightly to Hear i Unusual ConcertDiva Into Bap. ' tiamal Waters at Church. y j y , l GladeBater, Tex. The 'bulWrog i . quartetti" of,, the McGlnnls brothers ' of this vlty Is the-very latest sensation sen-sation in musical circles. So popular popu-lar has the "frog quartette" become that no njusicf.1 entertainment or 1 church service is complete without a . couple . of contributions by the erst-, , while denizens of the Sandy Creek v marshes. John and Joe McGtnnis, twenty and y eighteen-year-old singers of note, spend a good deal of their time In the woods . camping. Several weeks ago the boys .y noticed that there were four frogs In the creek which stuck pretty close together and that their voices w ere , easily distinguishable. They lay awake at night listening to these frogs. . The boys started singing "Carry Me . Back to 01' Vlrginny" one evening. They sang a couple of times Just to v , while awajj the time, ,' They were astonished an hour later when they heard the bullfrogs croaking croak-ing away on the same tune, picking it up little at a time. The next night the boys sang the same song three or four times, at In- tervals of an hour, with the bullfrog viuartette practicing on It between times. This continued for four nights, when the bullfrogs could actually 'carry the tune" to the melody. ; , , The toys went home and told the story. Six of the most representative men in Gladewater accompanied them ; to the creek for a "bullfrog concert." There, arranged on a log in proper musical order, were the four massive bullfrogs, singing "Carry Me Back to 01' Vlrginny," Just about as well as . any quartette. The voices of the tenor frog, the buss frog, the barl- ! tone frog and the second tenor frog stood out clearly. ... The McGlnnls , brdthers decided to capture the frogs. They had no trouble. They stayed for the night and when they interrupted the frog concert by . singing "Old Black Joe." the four bullfrogs, bull-frogs, hopped off the log and came to here the boys, were. In an hour's time they, were piping along on strains of "Old Black Joe" with the McGlnnls brothers. They were brought home, . and since then they have beenln In- , tense training from an artificial pond In the back yard at the McGlnnls home. The "bullfrog quartette" now sings four tunes, and the neighbors gnther In nightly to hear them. When the McGlnnls brothers take the bullfrogs out for entertainments each Is placed on a pedestal. , ' Last Sunday when the "bullfrog .: quortitte" was the feature of the "Carry Mo Back U 01' Viralnny." singing at th Baptist church the bright -bellied, Intelligent looking crokers were arranged along the railing rail-ing of the baptismal. When tiiey completed com-pleted rendering "Carry Me Hack to Or Vlrginny" and responded to an encore en-core with "Old Black Joe" they dived Into the ImpttMiml waters and no amount of persuasion could get them out. The McOInnls brothers Hre trninlnu a second set of fro.s for a qimrteltr. A Joint concert will probably be held at the church within a month. |