Word: leopard
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...largest of the frogs is the bullfrog, which begins life as a tadpole. When small, they live entirely on vegetable food, but when older they devour insects, which are caught by means of their long tongues covered by a sticky fluid. There are also the spring frogs, leopard frogs, and marsh frogs, all much alike, but characterized by difficult markings. The wood frog lives on land, and is difficult to catch except when it goes to the water to lay its eggs...
...length to the foot of a mountain, over which the sun was setting, spreading its red gold rays in a beautiful glow upon the summit. The poet, longing to reach the light and leave the gloomy forest depths behind, begins to ascend the mountain, when he meets a spotted leopard, which makes him retreat downward again. Three times he struggles to reach the summit, and three times he meets raging animals, and is forced back again into the darkening gloom. In utter despair he is wandering about the great crags at the foot of the mountain, when he meets...