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Better had it been that you had been put out on the highway, and the chillness of the night had benumbed you until you slept in death;" and the Viking's wife wept salt tears, and went angry and distressed away, passing round behind the loose skin partition that hung over an upper beam to divide the chamber. Alone in a corner sat the shrivelled frog.
At last bursteth the frog which hath inflated itself too long: then cometh out the wind. To prick a swollen one in the belly, I call good pastime. Hear that, ye boys! Our to-day is of the populace: who still KNOWETH what is great and what is small! Who could there seek successfully for greatness! A fool only: it succeedeth with fools. Thou seekest for great men, thou strange fool?
She sang very sweetly and her old father, when he petted her, used to call her his Little Singing Frog. Now one day while she was singing the Tsar's Youngest Son rode by and heard her. He stopped his horse and looked this way and that but for the life of him he couldn't see who it was who was singing so sweetly. "Who is singing?" he asked the old man.
He puffed out his white throat and croaked: "Chug-e-rum! chug-e-rum! What are you doing with my son and why did you pull him out of the water?" Pinkie Whiskers looked at Father Frog and when he saw how big he was, felt rather small and timid himself, but he raised up to his full height and said: "Is this little tadpole your son?
"It is evident that the tempo of this study must be very much reduced in speed. The return down-stroke as in No. 2: the second down-stroke as in No. 7: the up-strokes as in No. 2. "In Study No. 5 I use the hand-stroke only at the frog arm absolutely immobile, with no attempt at tone.
They could hear the frogs croak in the marais; it was dry, and the water was getting low. Gabriel used to say he never heard a frog croak afterwards without a sinking of the heart. It was the voice of misery. But Gabriel had strong partisans in this council.
In fact, it was a maxim in that age, that the human reason could only be sustained aloft by being tossed to and fro in the perpetual motion of contradiction; and therefore another sect of philosophers maintained the doctrine that the An was not the descendant of the Frog, but that the Frog was clearly the improved development of the An.
If a frog only once comes down from his tree he hops back into the pond again." "It is true, memory can never die!" cried the sick man. "I can not sleep any more; tell me about your early life and how you became a Christian. When two men have journeyed by the same road, and the moment of parting is at hand, they are fain to ask each other's name and where they came from."
Bobby," replied Mrs Frog, beginning to weep, gently, "I know'd ye would come to that you was always so fond of 'im, an' he was so fond o' you too, indeed " "I know it, mother," interrupted Bob, "but have you never heard of him?" "Never.
Watching him thus amusing himself one afternoon, I was immensely entertained by seeing him turn his head to one side, and wrinkle his eyebrows, as each successive frog said ke'dunk, and went splashing away over the lily pads. A pair of cubs are playful as young foxes, while their extreme awkwardness makes them a dozen times more comical.
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