NARROW QUARTERS.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXXVII, Issue 7, 18 August 1906, Page 2

NARROW QUARTERS.

The remarkable discovery of a frog sealed in a block of bluestone was made one day last week upon an allotment adjoining the Waverley Hotel in Cus-toms-street. A workman, Mr. T. W. Knox, who had been engaged fixing a hoarding, decided to protect the corner with a large block of stone (Mt. Eden bluestone), honeycombed and irregular in shape, and a spawling hammer had to be used to trim it. One blow split off a long piece of stone, and, to the surprise of the workman, a frog sprang out actively. It had been ensconced in a small cavity, and caneful examination of the stone showed that, although it

could not have been released without outside interference, a sufficient supply of light and air had reached its peculiar prson, for its colour was normal, and the eyes were apparently efficient. Froggie was imprisoned in the lower half of a broken bottle, and was handed to Mr. T. F. Cheeseman, curator of the museum. Among the various speculations as to how the frog came to be inside the stone, the most likely one is that it reached the cavity as spawn and grew too big to leave by way of the honeycomb holes. Mr. Cheeseman was of opinion that the frog was of the Australian variety, which has become naturalised here. This particular frog, how ever, was not web-footed, having the three claws or toes similar to a toad.