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 30
the whole brood to death. Onethat escaped ran off to his mother with the dread-ful news: O mother, said he, it was a beast— such a big four-footed beast, that did it. … Big ? quoth the old Frog, How big ? was itas big — and she puffed herself out— as bigas this? Oh, a gvent deal digger than that. Well, was it so big? and she swelled herselfout yet more. Indeed, mother, but it was ; andif you were to burst yourself, you would never reach half its size. The old Frog…
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