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Two Frogs lived together in a marsh. But one hot summer the marsh

dried up, and they left it to look for another place to live in:

for frogs like damp places if they can get them. By and by they

came to a deep well, and one of them looked down into it, and

said to the other, "This looks a nice cool place: let us jump in

and settle here." But the other, who had a wiser head on his

shoulders, replied, "Not so fast, my friend: supposing this well

dried up like the marsh, how should we get out again?"

Think twice before you act.

THE CRAB AND THE FOX

A Crab once left the sea-shore and went and settled in a meadow

some way inland, which looked very nice and green and seemed

likely to be a good place to feed in. But a hungry Fox came along

and spied the Crab and caught him. Just as he was going to be

eaten up, the Crab said, "This is just what I deserve; for I had

no business to leave my natural home by the sea and settle here

as though I belonged to the land."

Be content with your lot.