Frog of the Day

Stone Critters - Red Eyed Tree Frog Reading
Originally uploaded by KenCalvino.

Sunday. A good day to lay about and do some reading....

This frog collectible is from United Design's Stone Critters line and is called Red-Eyed Tree Frog Reading. I do not have a date on this item. The book does have writing etched into it, it is the first stanza of "The Butterfly's Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast" by William Roscoe. It reads:

Come take up your Hats, and away let us haste
To the Butterfly's Ball, and the Grasshopper's Feast.
The Trumpeter, Gad-fly, has summon'd the Crew,
And the Revels are now only waiting for you.

It's a cute poem that also includes a frog:

Then close on his Haunches, so solemn and wise,
The Frog from a Corner, look'd up to the Skies.