A FROG'S STORY
(Original.) I "When I was an egg I was born on a water lily : leaf, on which were many more of my own nation. One day I saw an old eel look hungrily at us, then he uncoiled himself and swam towards us. He snapped all of them up but me. After a little while, my coat became very tight and at last it burst and I felt free at last | "I swam away to find some food, for I knew that I had to. look after myself. At last I spied a lovely green piece of grass. When I was feasting something very big came up to me and I hid under a big tuft of grass. "Some days later I saw legs coming on me. Next day I was a little frog with a white tummy and a green back with stripes on it. I leapt clean out of the water and sat in the lovely^ soothing .sun. I felt happier than I had ever felt before in my life. "But now I am an old frog, and I always sit in the sun as I c 1 when I first became one. I cannot jump about as I used to be able to do when I was young. lam eight months old now and live in the side of a l-iver bed waiting for summer .to come again." "JANE EYRE" (11). Greytown.'
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Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 42, 17 August 1935, Page 20
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238A FROG'S STORY Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 42, 17 August 1935, Page 20
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