FROGS RAIN ON SYDNEY
Shock for Revellers
(Rec. 9 a.m.) SYDNEY, Dec. It rained frogs in the Sydney suburb of Sydenham on Boxing Day. Hundreds of thousands of inch-long frogs fell from the skies in a heavy early-morning downpour. Professor E. A. Briggs, of Sydney University, explains that frogs are often swept out of shallow ponds by whirlwinds and carried for many miles. The phenomenon has occurred in Sydney previously, but the coincidence with the festive season gave the latest frog visitation an especial significance for some tardy homing revellers., A brewery worker first sighted the frogs bouncing out of rain splashes—and his natural scepticism was dispelled only when children later exhibited hundreds of little .frogs which they had caught in tins and dippers.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 154, 28 December 1942, Page 5
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124FROGS RAIN ON SYDNEY Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 154, 28 December 1942, Page 5
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