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"And me, I've swallowed one," answered he of the bracken. "I've swallowed a pollywog. It wriggleth in my tummy. I shall die Emerson you beast, you've got on my bags." "Hush, dears," said Mrs. Honeychurch, who found it impossible to remain shocked. "And do be sure you dry yourselves thoroughly first. All these colds come of not drying thoroughly." "Mother, do come away," said Lucy.
Here is Jack's, for Polly's birthday; he says he got the idea from a real poem which is just as silly as his: A pollywog from a wayside brook Is a goodly gift for thee; But a milk-white steed, or a venison sheep, Will do very well for me. I told Jack I thought it extremely unhitched, but he says that's the chief beauty of the imitation.
I'm a worm, a maggot, brother to the pollywog an' child of the blow-fly. I ain't afraid or ashamed of nothin' that creeps or crawls or stinks. But travel with that mistake of creation! Go 'way, man. I ain't proud, but you turn my stomach." And Amos Wentworth went away, alone, dragging a sled loaded with provisions sufficient to last him to Dawson. A mile down the trail Shorty overhauled him.
I don't care so much about the pole, but I do want to get a 'Pollywoginisius Polaris." "Whatever is that?" asked Frank. "It's a sort of large pollywog with fur on it like seal," replied the professor gravely. "A sort of fur overcoat," suggested Billy, nudging Frank mischievously. "Exactly," said the professor gravely; "if you see one will you catch it for me?"
"O, my stars!" cried Horace, laughing, "you ought to live 'out west, you're such a cunning little spud. Come, now, here's another fish-pole for you. I'll show you how to catch one, and I bet 'twill be a pollywog you're just big enough." "But grandma didn't say I might go down to the river. Wait till I go ask her." "Poh!" said Horace, "no you needn't; I have to hurry.
I was in such a hurry to pop my specimen into the bottle that I held him carelessly and he evidently hopped away. Oh, this is a terrible, an irreparable, loss." Although the boys tried to comfort him they could not. He seemed overcome by grief. "Cheer up," said Billy at length, "remember there is always the fur-bearing pollywog to be captured."
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