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THE ARROGANT FROG

AND

THE SUPERIOR BULL


Once, on a time and in a place
Conducive to malaria,
There lived a member of the race
Of Rana Temporaria;
  Or, more concisely still, a frog
  Inhabited a certain bog.

A bull of Brobdingnagian size,
Too proud for condescension,
One morning chanced to cast his eyes
Upon the frog I mention;
  And, being to the manner born,
  Surveyed him with a lofty scorn.

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