A SHOCKING CASE.

Westport Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1151, 17 February 1874, Page 4

A SHOCKING CASE.

A man named Southworth, living in Pensylvania, has just ejected from his stomach a frog which has been living there for fifteen years. Mr South - worth has had a great deal of trouble with that frog. It used to croak at most unreasonable hours. When Southworth would go to church for instance, the frog would remain quiet until the congregation engaged in silent prayer, and then it set up such a terrible yowl that the sexton would run in and collar Southworth and drag him out to quiet down in the graveyard. Sometimes the frog would give a nocturnal serenade after Southworth was asleep m bed; then Southworth would rise, as mad as anything, and seize a stomach pump and try to draw the frog up. But the subtle reptile had had that trick tried on him too often during these fifteen years, and it always stowed up outside the tube apace, out of the draft, and waited until Southworth exhausted himself. Southworth never fooled that frog a great deal, and when frogs were in season, Southworth used to fish for this one with a fly; but it always refused to rise, and the fly buzzed around so in Southworth's alimentary canal, that it nearly tickled him to death. So Southworth had to wait until the other day, when the frog thought it would come up and go and see a friend ; and when it did come up, Southworth killed it with a fork. He says the frog used to eat twice as much as he did; but we have been thinking it over, and it seems to us the statement must be exaggerated somehow.