The Frogs and the Ox - read by Aesock H Puppet (Aesop Fable)

19 Apr 2020 · 2 min

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Aesop H. Puppet reads the classic fable about an old frog who tries to puff herself up as big as an ox that killed her child. She keeps inflating on the other frogs' insistence that the ox was even larger, until she bursts. The moral: do not attempt the impossible.

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Hi, my name is Aesop H. Puppet, and I'm going to read you one of Uncle Aesop's famous fables. This one is called "The Frogs and the Ox." An Ox came down to a reedy pool to drink. As he splashed heavily in the water, he crushed a young Frog into the mud. The old frog soon missed the little one and asked his brothers and sisters what had become of him. "A great big monster," said one of them, "stepped on little brother with one of his huge feet." "Big was he?" said the old frog, puffing herself up. "Was he as big as this?" 'Oh, much bigger!' they cried. The frog puffed up still more. 'He could not have been bigger than this!' she said. But the little frogs all declared that the monster was much, much bigger, and Old Frog kept puffing herself out more and more until all at once, she burst. Uncle Aesop says, "Do not attempt the impossible."