The Two Frogs


078. THE TWO FROGS. One hot sultry summer, the lakes and ponds being almost everywhere dried up, a couple of frogs agreed to travel together in search of water. At last they came to a deep well, and sitting upon the brink of it, began to consult whether they should leap in or not.
One of them was for it, urging that there was plenty of clear spring water, and no danger of being disturbed.
“Well,” says the other, “all this may be true, and yet I cannot come into your opinion for my life; for if the water should happen to dry up here too, how shall we get out again?” [more info]

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