I've seed Englishmen that couldn't sleep all night, for the everlastin' noise these critters made.
Their frogs have somethin' else to do here besides singin'.

Ain't it a splendid prospect that, havin' these young frogs settled all round you in the same mud-hole, all gathered in a nice little musical family party.

All fine fun this, till some fine day we Yankee storks will come down and gobble them all up, and make clear work of it.
"No, Squire, take my advice now for once; jist go to your colony minister when he is alone.

Don't set down, but stand up as if you was in airnest, and didn't come to gossip, and tell him, 'Turn these ponds into a lake,' sais you, my lord minister, give them an inlet and an outlet.
Let them be kept pure, and sweet, and wholesome, by a stream, runnin' through.

Fish will live there then if you put them in, and they will breed there, and keep up the stock.