[3] With "Frog Legs Rag", Scott embarked upon a career as a successful and important ragtime songwriter.

[1] Ragtime encyclopedist David A. Jasen identifies a number of characteristic James Scott compositional devices in this early work.

The lyrical C is an interesting development in feeling on the A section, with similar harmonics.

The D section introduces us to one of Scott's favorite devices, the echo, or call and response phrasing in which an idea, usually of one measure, is stated and then repeated an octave higher.

[5]Jasen's appraisal of "Frog Legs Rag" is not unreserved: he also places "Frog Legs Rag" within the early period when James Scott compositions were "flag-waving" and lacking in the restraint the songwriter developed after 1906.