Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 529
ing to break out and goaway. Fig. 4 will give you some idea how theylooked at this time, just before leaving the egg. Besides these eggs, we found some that were notin bunches fastened to water-plants, but in longstrings, floating in the water. These, my friendsaid, were the eggs of a toad. Then we… … FIG. 5.—EGGS OF A TOAD. spring, when it goes there to lay its eggs, and im-mediately returns to its life in the trees. The young stay in the water until they becomeperfect frogs, when they leave it, and go to help their parents catch mosquitoes among the branchesof the trees. One kind of tree-frog…
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