An ox was feeding
near a pond in a meadow.
He almost put his foot
on a company
of little frogs.
This frightened, them nearly
to death.
One of the little frogs
hopped home to his mother.
"We were sitting near
the pond in the meadow"
he told her "when a great
beast came along.
He was big. He almost
stepped on us".
The mother frog said
"How big was he?
was he as big as I am?".
The little frog replied
"Much bigger"
Then the old frog
puffed herself out and asked. "was the beast as
big as this?".
Very much larger,
"said the little frog.
The foolish old frog tried
again to make herself
as big as the ox.
She tried so hard that
this time she burst.
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