The Boys and The Frogs

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The Boys and The Frogs

Play for one may be death to another.

Boys playing by a pond noticed Frogs in the water and began to throw rocks at them. They killed several, whereupon one of the Frogs cried out: "Please stop. What is sport to you is death to us!"

Townsend version

Some boys, playing near a pond, saw a number of Frogs in the water and began to pelt them with stones. They killed several of them, when one of the Frogs, lifting his head out of the water, cried out: "Pray stop, my boys: what is sport to you, is death to us."

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