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THE OX AND THE FROG.
An ox, drinking at a pool, trod on a brood of young frogs, and killed one of them. The mother coming up, and missing one of her sons, asked his brothers what had become of him.
"He is dead, mother dear; for just now a very huge beast with four feet came to the pool and crushed him to death with his cloven feet."
The frog, puffing herself out, inquired: "If the beast was as big as that in size?" "Cease, mother, to puff yourself out," said her son, "and do not be angry; for you would, I am sure, sooner burst than successfully imitate the hugeness of that monster."
