seven years, ;m<l travelled over most part of Europe to

ease himself.

The Frencb habitually eat green frogs, taking only

the hind legs, skinned, and with the claws twisted

together. In this form the creatures resemble delicate

little lamb cutlets, and are very palatable. About many

parts of Frame, and at Yienna, they are fattened up in

froggeries (grenouillieres) constructed for the purpose ;

they are tirst caught with lines baited with small pieces

of scarlet cloth, or in nets, or are raked from the mud.

The English Dancing Master (l(iöl) contains a quaint

rhyme :—

"The rose is red, the grass La green;Serve Queen Bess, our noble Queen !Kitty the SpinnerWill sit down to dinner

And eat the leg of a trog."

In the North of Lincolnshire the soro niouth withwhich babies are often trouhled is called the " trog.''

Sir John Poley, wlio served in the Low Countriesander Christian, King of Dennmrk, adopted a goldenfrog as his device. Most probably reference is made tohis name in the curioua homely bailad, " Froggy woulda wooing go; 'Heigh ho,' says Roley; With a Roley,Poley, ganmion and spinach : 'Heigh ho,' says Roley."This well-known song seems to have been borrowedfrom Melismata, London (1011), or from Pills to purgeMelancholy (1719). "In 1580 was licensed a moststränge weddinge of the frogge and the mouse," asappears from the books of the Stationers' Company,quoted in Warton's Histovy of the English Poets (184U).

It is in the autumn, jnsi when they plunge into thewater where they would pass the winter, thal thefrogs are most esteemed, being now fatter and moredelicate than at other times; and in France epicures