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 being cooked, she ran out like lightning, and traversing all the ditches and ponds, returned with her apron full of frogs, which she spread very liberally on the plates of all the guests, and was quite overjoyed at having found such good cheer We may easily figure to ourselves the confusion and bustle this occasioned among the guests, every one endeavouring to avoid or throw away the frogs that were hopping all about. The little savage quite surprised at the small value they seemed to set on her delicate fare, carefully gathered them up, and threw them back again on the plates and table The same thing has happened several times in different companies

It was with the utmost difficulty that they put her off eating raw flesh and by degrees reconciled her to cooked victuals The first trials she made to accustom herself to victuals drest with salt and to drink wine, cost her her teeth, which, together with her nails, where preserved as a curiosity She recovered indeed, a new set of teeth just like ours, but hurt her health, which continues to be extremely delicate. There was but little probability of preserving her alive;