Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 January 1913 — The Toad In the Rock. [ARTICLE]

The Toad In the Rock.

Of late days I lave noted, says a recent writer, a considerable number of Yeputed cases of the occurrence of live frogs and toads in what were alleged to be solid rocks. This is, of course, an old, old story that appears to possess perennial powers (like the toad) of revivification. I had thought that Dean Buckland (father of the genial Frank) had exploded the toad in the rock myth once for all. The Dean inclosed toads and frogs in cells eut In blocks of stone, and buried them three feet deep in his garden. Here the conditions were even less rigorous than those under which the amphibians are reported to survive for ages in the “solid rock.’’ Dean Buckland’s tends were nearly all dead by the end es the first year es entombment, and none survived the sec end rw» _ z