The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-05-20
FROGS
The Traditions Regarding Them. and Some
thing of the Deiicacy of Their Hams.

The Traditions Regarding Them. and Some
thing of the Delicacy of Their Hams.
The oyster season has ended; the fatal
months without the Il have begun to run
their course. Let not he who loves his
stomach despair, however, for the JUICY,
tender, delicious frog has come-he who
in France makes his entrance and exit by
the light of wax bougies and the popping OF
seductive Widow Clicquot. There is a
prejudice among some people about frogs
asa steady diet. 1t is not ioundered on
reason. What animal or reptile so much
resembles man as the frog Many men and
more women think that they can sing.
They can't. Neither can the frog, though
from time immemorial his lugubrious wall
solemn croak, has been heard at dewy eve
by all summer boarders. Who has not
seen men that looked just like frogs-beart-
less. bald .pated, wide mouth, receding chin
prominent eyes, aldermine-b ellied sort OF
fellows? Then their eyes, they exercise IL q
electric power, and what ladies do notg Ii il
4 fact in natural history that some men
have endeavored to sand tie gszs OF The
lrog's eye, and fell iainting to the ground
Though frogs never pay milliner's or
tailor's bill, yet no creatures follow so
many fashions. No sprlng, summer, autumn
and winter for them. They put on new
suits every two weeks, and what woman
would not delight in thus arrangement
There are people who 40 away To
spend the summer by locking the front
door, pulling down the blinds anu living no
one knows how. The frog retires Tor a
whole season, living on his own resources
only to save Goals and light he selects the
winter.
When the frog has Matched a family of
tadpoles into the world his beauty fades,
he become old and wrjnk ed, aud the M
Try p ople thinks he satold. one of the
quaint fables or Esoo relates how they
eecteda king, showing certainly human
sense; but the old legend of Lstona passing
by pond OF water, and stopping TO quench
her thirst, some rude bumbkins on the
bank somuddied 1t that she could not drink
1t and, waving her wand, she changed them
into frogs, is much prettier.
The frog too, has been celebrate in song
poetry, sacred history and the Koran Two
thousand years ago Aristophanes brought
frog people onto the stage, aud n poem at.
trlbuted to Homer relates of the battle be-
tween the frogs and mice Then, too, frogs
gave Moses ana his people good deal OF
trouble In Egypt once, which might have
all been avoided if they had fallen to eating
them, as We do now. Aud the Koran re-
lates that when the Chaldeans cast Abra
ham into the flames the frogs spat into and
extiuguished the fire. Therefore, says Mo
manned, respect the frog for having saved
the patriarch
A learned Swiss physician as early as
l1B. Tcheachzer, discovered the peiritied
skeleton of frog, and declared II to be an
antediluviau man. Ii is strange but true
that this impression prevailed IN the seien-
niic world for a century, until Cuvier. the
great French naturalist, exposed it. Then
the scholars retorted by naming the petri.
facation after the learned Swiss scientist
who had fooled the world for full century
When the summer suns breathes his
warm rays on the surface of the water Mis-
Frog will sit Tor hours talking aud lulling
to sleep her 900 spawny offspring with all
the watchful care of a mother over her tirst-
horn as she toddles 1t on her knee, cooling
IL to slumber.
Yet ne has his enemies. Science perse
cutes him. They will jump into the mouths
of snakes. Hawks love them MS chickens,
and owls solemnly wink, blink and pounce
down upon them az night.
But the epicurean With what delight
will he hail his arrival A French coos in
Napoleon's time realized II fortune of POO,
900 francs from his famous frog pies. In
Illinois and the north OF Ohio are severa
large ponds where these chickens OF tn,
land and water are reared and fed for tn,
market. These are the fat, Jack Falstail
looking sotr of fellows that one sees at tn,
game-dealer's and restaurateur's. Frog
are good tried, stewed " It'll cream auce ant
in pies. Boys, now get your spears anC
red rags catch the luscious, JUICY del lcacy
for the irog.eaters- Cincinnati Enquire.