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Townsend version
Two frogs dwelt in the same pool. When the pool dried up under the summer's heat, they left it and set out together for another home. As they went along they chanced to pass a deep well, amply supplied with water, and when they saw it, one of the Frogs said to the other, "Let us descend and make our abode in this well: it will furnish us with shelter and food." The other replied with greater caution, "But suppose the water should fail us. How can we get out again from so great a depth?'
Moral
Do nothing without a regard to the consequences.
L'Estrange version
Upon the drying up of a lake, two frogs were forc'd to quit, and to seek for water elsewhere. As they were upon the search, they discover'd a very deep well. Come (says one to t'other) let us e'en go down here, without looking any further. You say well, says her companion; but what if the water should fail us here too? How shall we get out again?
Moral
'Tis good advice to look before we leape.
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