Aesop’s Fables: The Frogs & the Ox 伊索寓言：青蛙和牛

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Aesop’s Fables: The Frogs & the Ox

伊索寓言：青蛙和牛

An Ox came down to a reedy pool to drink. As he splashed heavily into 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 the old Frog kept puffing herself out more and more until, all at once, she burst.

Do not attempt the impossible.

story: http://www.read.gov/aesop/002.html

q1 What type of pool did the ox come down to? 

Ans= A reedy one.

q2. What did the ox do when he splashed heavily in the water? 

Ans= he crushed a young frog into the mud. 

q3. Did the others say the ox crushed the young frog? 

Ans= No,  a great big monster= the ox.. 

q4. How big was he? 

Ans= the old frog  mother puffed herself as big as she could.

q5. What happened to the old frog? 

Ans= she burst

Bonus q= the moral of the story--do not attempt What? 

Ans=the impossible.

 

fs= "Do not attempt the impossible." is the moral. It means don't try what you cannot do. The old frog mother, in trying to be as big as the ox, burst and died because she did what she couldn't. I can't be 6'3" or 6'4" or 6'5" or 6'7" or older than I am. I have to be myself and not try to be taller or older...maybe I already did that 2 years ago to me.