AN ALLIGATOR DEVOURED BY A FROG.

Globe, Volume II, Issue 176, 31 December 1874, Page 3

AN ALLIGATOR DEVOURED BY A FROG.

(Front, the Boston Globe.) Mark Twain's jumping frog has been outdone by a huge specimen of its kind in this city. Persons in the habit of walking along Charles street, near Beacon, are familiar with the tank in Snow's apothecary store, with its numerous gold fish, which, with a monster frog, two alligators, and a turtle, formed what seemed to be a harmonious and happy family. But appearances in this case, as in so many others, were deceptive. The huge frog, whose swollen figure was so conspicuous at the side of the tank toward the window, was a most voracious monster, devouring other frogs, as well as making a dainty meal off the delicate gold fish. A few days ago one of the alligators, eleven inches long, was missing, and, after search had been made everywhere else, it occurred to the owner of the tank to examine the inside of the frog, though it hardly seemed reasonable to suppose that he had swallowed the alligator ; but on opening his mouth, it was clear that this was the ease, and by putting the finger down the frog's throat the body of the alligator, somewhat softened but not decomposed, was brought up from the unbounded stomach of the huge croaker. We are glad to be able to state, for the satisfaction of mothers with small children living in the neighbourhood, that the frog is to be sent away,