May 28.--

Found the old frog in my garden that has been there four years. I

know it by a mark which it received from my spade four years ago. I

thought it would die of the wound, so I turned it up on a bed of

flowers at the end of the garden, which is thickly covered with ferns

and bluebells. I am glad to see it has recovered.

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