The local Chinese authorities are making their seasonal appeal to the country people to spare the frog lest the fields be spoilt. It is to be hoped that it will fall on ears more re" sponsive than official vecommendations usually encounter. The frog could draw up a fairly damaging indictment against mankind, Learn ed professors in other Jands, in the interests of biology, or any other old "ology" that is within convenient reach, investigate the frog's internal mechanism with an altogether un-Warranted familiarity. In this land of slogans, it might be suggested to the local Tangpu that "spare the frog" is short, crisp and to the purpose and inscribed on banners and with a few bands—Shanghat would gladly deprive itself of them for n few weeks—parties of frog-savers might parade the rural dis~ tricts and persuade the bucolics that the human stomach is not a fitting mausoleum for one who strives to them by leaps and bounds.
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