The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1883-05-24
FROGS.
The Traditions Regarding Them, and So

The Traditions Regarding Them, and Some
thing of the Delicacy of Their Hams.
The oyster season has ended; the fatal
months without the r 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 II
prediudice among some people about hugs
as a steady diet. 1t is not foundered on
reason. What animal or reptile 20 much
resembles man as the frog? Many men aud
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 M
seen men that looked just like frogs-bear,-
less, bald pated wide mouth, receding chm
prominent eyes, aldermine-bellied sort o.
fellowsp Then their eyes, they exercise he
electric power, and what ladies' do notI IL II
a fact in natural history that some men
have endeavored to s.aud the gaze OF The
frogs eye, and fell tainting TO the ground
Though frogs never pay milliner's or
tailor's bill. yet no creatures follow so
many fashions. No spring, summer, aGtum
and winter for them. Tleg put uu new
suits every two weeks, aud what woman
would not delight in tins urrangt meni2
There are people WI" 20 away l.
spend The summer ny Loo king the front
door pullinsnowh the blinds an livn Il"
one knows how The fog rrtifes lor .
whole season, living on his own rrsonrces--
only 10 save cJals and light he se.ec the
winner.
VII n the frog has b tched family o.
tadpOies n - The wnr hi, beau y fades
I've bscom. Uli AMI VIZ ked, and tue c III
ty ole mi Ks e toad. O.e toe
uudia. tables VI hspS relates nov Iney
Z ecied king, shown x certainly human
sense; but the old legend oi L'tona passing
by pond Of water, and stopping 10 quench
her thirst, some rude bumbkins on the
bank 30 mnddied 1t that she could not drink
II and, gayi: 4 her wand, she changed them
iuio hogs, Is much prettier.
The frog too. has been celebrated In song,
poetry, sacred history and the Koran. Two
thousand years ago Aristopbanes brought
og people onto the stage, aud a poem at
tributed TO Homer relates Of the battle be-
tween the frogs and mice. Then, too, frogs
gave Moses and his people good deal OF
trouble IN Egypt once, which might have
all been avoided IL they had fallen - eating
them, as we do now. And the Koran re-
lates that when the Chaldeans cast Aora,
ham into the flames the frogs spal into and
ertiuguished the fire. Therefore, says Mo
BANNED. respect the frog for having saved
the patriarch.
A learned sviss physician o. early as
IT2B Tcbeachzer discovered the petrihed
skeleton Of frog, and declared Il 70 be an
.ntediluyian man. IL IL strange but true
thAi this impression prevailed IN the seien-
tlfic world for q century, until Culver, the
great French naturalist, exposed II. Then
'he scholars retOrted by naming the Detri-
facatiOn after the learned ssiss scientist
sba bad fooled the world for full century.
When the summer suns breathes bis
arm rays on the surface Of the water Ms.
Frog viii sit Tor bours taking and lulling
. sleep Der so spawny Offspring with all
he watcufui care OF q mother over Der nrst-
iJrn as sbs tJddies it on her knee, cooling
u - slumber.
Yea e has his enemies. Science perse
mites hin. rhty uili jump into the mouths
Tsnatss. HsEEs l6s- them as chickens
ifi oufs ~ uimiy wink. blink and poune-
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