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[Illustration: "HAPPY?"]
[Illustration: "I AM HAPPY."]
[Illustration: "WHY SHOULDN'T I BE HAPPY?"]
[Illustration: "THE SOCIETY LODGES ME."]
[Illustration: "TYRRELL FEEDS ME."]
[Illustration: "NO EXPENSE TO ME, YOU KNOW."]
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[Illustration: "GOOD DAY TO YOU."]

If you rejoice in the sight of a really happy, contented frog, you
should stand long before White's Green Frog, and study his smile. No
other frog has a smile like this; some are wider, perhaps, but that is
nothing. A frog is ordained by Nature to smile much, but the smile seems
commonly one of hunger merely, though often one of stomach-ache. White's
Green Frog smiles broad content and placid felicity. Maintained in
comfort, with no necessity to earn his living, this is probably natural;
still, the bison enjoys the same advantages, although nobody ever saw
him smile; but, then, an animal soon to become extinct can scarcely be
expected to smile. In the smile of White's Green Frog, however, I fear,
a certain smug, Pecksniffian quality is visible. "I am a Numble
individual, my Christian friends," he seems to say, "and my wants, which
are few and simple, are providentially supplied. Therefore, I am Truly
Happy. It is no great merit in my merely batrachian nature that I am
Truly Happy; a cheerful countenance, my friends, is a duty imposed on me
by an indulgent Providence." White's Green Frog may, however, be in
reality a frog of excellent moral worth: and I trust that Green's White
Frog, if ever he is discovered, will be a moral frog too.

[Illustration: "HERE WE ARE!"]