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"She'll stiffen you up again, as she did once before," said Merla, "if you try to hurt the earth people." "Are these earth people?" asked one. And then they all stopped their play and regarded Trot and Cap'n Bill with their little black eyes. "The old polliwog looks something like King Anko," said one of them. "I'm not a polliwog!" answered Cap'n Bill angrily.
Ben was getting uproarious; Lambert playfully clapped his hand over his friend's mouth. The result was one of those quick India-rubber scuffles fearful to behold but delightful to human nature in its polliwog state. "Vat wash te matter, Pen?" asked Jacob, hurrying forward. "Oh! nothing at all," panted Ben, "except that Van Mounen was afraid of starting an English riot in this orderly town.
"You improve as you go on, so give us another verse." "I don't know any more," said Tommy, "and I am very hungry." "One more verse," persisted the man, "and then you shall have the bread and butter upon the condition." So Tommy sang the following verse: "A big frog lived in a slimy bog, And caught a cold in an awful fog. The cold got worse, The frog got hoarse, Till croaking he scared a polliwog!"
We must also admit our ignorance in regard to toad, backward search revealing only tade, tode, ted, toode, and tadie, the root baffling all study. Polliwog and tadpole are delightfully easy. Old forms of polliwog are pollywig, polewiggle, and pollwiggle.
The humble polliwog in its development is significant of far more marvellous facts than the caterpillar changing into the butterfly, embodying as it does the deepest poetry and romance of evolution. Blue dusk, that brings the dewy hours, Brings thee, of graceless form in sooth. Edgar Fawcett.
In the year 1838, Hawley convened a "World's Convention" at Liberty Hall, called by the wicked "Polliwog Chapel," to consider the subject of uniting all the churches in one church without a creed. One afternoon early in the week of the session, I saw three men walking on the street towards Liberty Hall, with knapsacks buckled on their backs.
The egg which consisted of but one cell is now divided into two exactly equal parts, of the deepest significance. Of the latter truth we may judge from the fact that if one of those cells should be injured, only one-half a polliwog would result, either a head or a tail half. Before long the unseen hand of life ploughs another furrow across the egg, and we have now four cells.
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