They are now occupied with brushing them out of doors. Rider Haggard observed one in Africa in modern times (in his book Under Crescent and Star ). Plagues of frogs were not unheard of in ancient times, and the Dictionary of the Bible points out that H. They have sometimes seen a few frogs cross the road in wet weather. The second plague is the plague of frogs. The present occupants had lived there 4½ years, but had never experienced anything like this. ![]() Upon inquiry I ascertained that the frogs had thus congregated since noon on Monday, that they had literally besieged the house, jumping all over the groundfloor rooms, that the garden and its paths were full of them. A cottage stood about 300 yards from the beginning of this swarm. The frogs were about ten days old, very small. I was particularly astonished, as I knew the nearest water to be the Little Reservoir-quite mile away. Nowhere else along the road was a frog to be seen. I thus proceeded quite 400 yards, where the phenomenon ended as sharply defined as it had begun. ![]() Pharaoh’s magicians reproduced the frog infestation, but they could not. It was, as was the case in all the plagues, the result of Pharaoh’s refusal to let the people of Israel go. This plague would affect everyone from Pharaoh to servants. There was to be no place in Egypt where the frogs were not present in large numbers. ![]() For example, the plague of frogs is performed as a light aria for alto, depicting frogs jumping in the violins, and the plague of flies and lice is a light chorus with fast. They lined the hedges and covered the road so thickly that I had to walk on tiptoe. The second plague involves an overwhelming infestation of frogs. The work was especially popular in the 19th century because of its numerous choruses, generally one for each plague, and its playful musical depiction of the plagues. THIS afternoon, as I was walking into Lickey Village from King's Norton, I came across innumerable frogs.
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