. Nature study and life. Nature study. 278 NATURE STUDY AND LIFE where toads are plenty. It will often be mingled with low musical trills of the male toad. This is the signal by which you may know that all the adult toads are migrat- ing to the nearest pond to lay their eggs. That same night, or as you awake in the morning, you will hear the country ringing with the music Gibson has so well described as the " sweetest sound in ; As spring draws slowly on, my ears grow impatient to hear it, and as the years go by I enjoy it more and more. True,. Fig. 114. Life St(jry Showing eg
. Nature study and life. Nature study. 278 NATURE STUDY AND LIFE where toads are plenty. It will often be mingled with low musical trills of the male toad. This is the signal by which you may know that all the adult toads are migrat- ing to the nearest pond to lay their eggs. That same night, or as you awake in the morning, you will hear the country ringing with the music Gibson has so well described as the " sweetest sound in ; As spring draws slowly on, my ears grow impatient to hear it, and as the years go by I enjoy it more and more. True,. Fig. 114. Life St(jry Showing egg, tadpole, young toad just emerged from water, one year old, and adult. {/', c, t/, i', photographs by the author) some may think it monotonous. It may come but once a year, and then only for a few days, and to me it is one of the cheeriest wedding bells of the season. But the early musicians are now forgotten. A new singer has come upon tlie scene, and his mellow nocturne in the twilight marshes brings a message unknown to his predecessors. This is no shrill peep that stirs your blood and sets your ears a-tingle, no bubbling rattle or vibrant croak that cries "qui vive" to your eager senses, but a drowsy drool that brings your feet to loitering in the deepening dusk, and whose distant music from the swampy lowlands lulls you. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Hodge, Clifton Fremont, 1859-. Boston and London, Ginn & Co.
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