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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...England reptiles include the tortoises, snakes and batracians but there are no lizards or crocodiles. There are about ten different species, of batrachians of which the largest is a kind of salamander. These creatures feed on animal food and lay their eggs in the water...
...largest of the frogs is the bullfrog, which begins life as a tadpole. When small, they live entirely on vegetable food, but when older they devour insects, which are caught by means of their long tongues covered by a sticky fluid. There are also the spring frogs, leopard frogs, and marsh frogs, all much alike, but characterized by difficult markings. The wood frog lives on land, and is difficult to catch except when it goes to the water to lay its eggs...
...tortoises native to New England, and besides these several species are sometimes brought from the south by the gulf stream. These attain the length of eight feet, and weigh 1000 pounds. The snapping turtle is well known in this neighborhood where they are quite common. Except when foraging for food, they remain under water, only coming to the surface about once in an hour to breathe. They are very persistent in attacking their prey, and when they have seized a fish, they will often allow themselves to be carried about for hours. They sometimes weigh as much as fifty pounds...
...really a burlesque or caricature of nothing at all. The rumor was spread abroad early in the season that the Pudding meant to do something really "serious" this time. Well, "serious" is a comparative term, and people who feared that this year's theatricals would furnish no food for laughter troubled themselves quite unnecessarily; "Proserpina" is not "serious" enough to hurt; it is about as serious as "Orphee aux Enfers." But this is quite an enormous, and wholly welcome, stride in the serious direction, considering the other things the Pudding has done recently...
Alcohol is worthless both as a food and as a medicine. It is true that the medical profession is responsible for much of the drunkenness of today. One celebrated physician has said that he could cure more diseases by prescribing total abstinence for one year than by ordinary practice for one hundred years. It is also well known that Baron Liebig said that there is as much nourishment in the quantity of flour that would lie on the point of a table knife as there is in eight pints of beer...