Death of a Naturalist

• "All year the flax dam festered in the heart of the townland"
• "Bubbles gargled delicately"
• "But best of all was the warm, thick slobber of frogspawn that grew like clotted water"
• "a coarse croaking that i had not heared before"
• "I sickened, turned, and ran"
• "The great slime kings"
• "Were gathered there for vengance, and i knew that if i dipped my hand the spawn would clutch it"