- Author:
- Gordon, Charles Alexander, Sir
- Publication Info:
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London:
Bailliere, Tindall, and Cox,
1877,
pg 96
Text on page 96
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OUR TRIP TO BURMAH.
not content to live in mud and marsh, as do the humbler members of his family, he ascended a dung-heap. From the summit he looked down contemptuously upon his brother frogs, and, moreover, behaved himself in so conspicuous a manner as to attract the notice of a kite which circled above him. The bird made one of its swoops upon him, carried off the proud batrachian in its talons, and at its leisure devoured the creatureaa righteous end for all such as think themselves
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It is by no means an uncommon sight to see a child at the breast one minute, and the next kept quiet by being given its motheras cheroot to smoke.
above their neighbours, and a moral by no means inapplicable to frogs elsewhere than in Burmah. The audience appears to number six to eight hundred; the sexes seem to be about equally represented; the children are in quite their due proportion, but presenting this peculiarityathat a few who are still in the arms of their mothers alternate a pull at the ordinary cheroot with a draught from natureas fountain. Such aabove their neighbours, and a moral by no means inapplicable to frogs elsewhere than in Burmah. The audience appears to number six to eight hundred; the sexes seem to be about equally represented; the children are in quite their due proportion, but presenting this peculiaritya that a few who are still in the arms of their mothers alternate a pull at the ordinary cheroot with a draught from naturea s fountain. Such a
