Death Of A Naturallist: Children

Question 1

‘Best of all was the warm thick slobber of frogspawn that grew like clotted water in the shade of the banks. Here, every spring, I would fill jampotfuls of the jellied specks’

Answer 1

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Question 2

‘Wait and watch until the fattening dots burst…daddy frog was called bullfrog and how he croaked and how the mammy frog laid hundred of little eggs and this was Frogspawn.’

Answer 2

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Question 3

‘Gross-bellied frogs were cocked on sods; their loose necks pulsed like sails. Some hopped: the slap and plop were obscene threats’

Answer 3

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Question 4

‘Mud grenades, their blunt heads farting. I sickened, turned, and run. The great slime kings were gathered for vengeance and I knew that if I dipped my hand the spawn would clutch it’

Answer 4

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