"Well, obviously not frogs, exactly," Joshua said. "More legs, for one thing
. And much, much larger. But the same concept -- amphibian, not very smart,
all that. We used 'em sort of like you used horses and other big animals. Be
asts of burden."
"I wasn't trying to kill it when I was surrounding it, you know," Joshua sai
d. "I was just trying to check something. I was seeing if I could control it
like we control the frogs back home."
"Then you're in?"
"I just can't win," Van Doren complained.