Dear Miss Duncan,
[. . . ] I gothome very safely last night, and partly this was owing to the care taken of myby two remarkably large & amiable Frogs, whose arms I took , & who sawme down the lane. (You will see a truerepresentation of the fact overleaf.) Nothing could exceed the genteel & intelligent expression of theircountenances, except the urbanity of their deportment and the melancholy and oblivious sweetness oftheir voices. They informed me that theywere the parents of nine and forty tadpoles of various ages and talents some ofwhom were expecting shortly to emigrate to Malvern and Mesopotamia.
Believe me,
Yours sincerely,
Edward Lear
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