Aesop's fables . KING FOR A KING TIME was when the Frogs were discontented becausethey had no one to rule over them : so they sent adeputation to Jupiter to ask him to give them a , despising the folly of their request, cast a log intothe pool where they lived, and said that that should betheir King. The Frogs were terrified at first by the splash,and scuttled away into the deepest parts of the pool; butby and by, when they saw that the log remamed motion-less, one by one they ventured to the surface again, andbefore long, growing bolder, they began to feel suchcontempt for it that
Aesop's fables . KING FOR A KING TIME was when the Frogs were discontented becausethey had no one to rule over them : so they sent adeputation to Jupiter to ask him to give them a , despising the folly of their request, cast a log intothe pool where they lived, and said that that should betheir King. The Frogs were terrified at first by the splash,and scuttled away into the deepest parts of the pool; butby and by, when they saw that the log remamed motion-less, one by one they ventured to the surface again, andbefore long, growing bolder, they began to feel suchcontempt for it that they even took to sitting upon that a King of that sort was an insult to theirdignity, they sent to Jupiter a second time, and beggedhim to take away the sluggish King he had given them,and to give them another and a better one. Jupiter,annoyed at being pestered in this way, sent a Stork torule over them, who no sooner arrived among them thanhe began to catch and eat the Frogs as fast as he could. 62.
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