Fable
The Frogs and The Ox
An Ox came down to a reedy pool to drink. As
he splashed heavily into the water, he crushed a young Frog into the mud.
The
old Frog soon missed the little one and asked his brothers and sisters what had
become of him.
"A
great big monster," said one of them, "stepped on little brother with
one of his huge feet!"
"Big,
was he!" said the old Frog, puffing herself up. "Was he as big as
this?"
"Oh,
much bigger!" they cried.
The
Frog puffed up still more.
"He
could not have been bigger than this," she said. But the little Frogs all
declared that the monster was much, much bigger and the old Frog kept puffing
herself out more and more until, all at once, she burst.
Moral
-
Do not attempt the impossible.
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