Æsop's Fables (V. S. Vernon-Jones)/The Frogs and the Well

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3911690Æsop's Fables: A New Translation — The Frogs and the WellVernon S. Vernon JonesAesop

THE FROGS AND THE WELL

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 FROGS AND THE WELL