The children's book; a collection of the best and most famous stories and poems in the English language (1910)
Scudder, Horace Elisha, 1838-1902 · Boston, Houghton, Mifflin and company · leaf 18
e faults of others. THE FROGS ASK FOR A KING. The Frogs being concerned at the free andeasy way in which they were living, sent theirelders to Jove to beg him to send them a king.Now he saw what simpletons they were and tosseda Log into the middle of the lake. The Frogs,frightened out of their… … still, they forgot their fright, and felt such con-tempt for it that they jumped up and sat on it.Thinking such a king not worth having, they wenta second time to Jove, and asked him to changehim. Then he gave them an Eel, but when theysaw how stupid he was, they refused to receivehim. So they went…
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