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Fable · Story The Boys and the Frogs Aesop (George Fyler Townsend translation) Ancient Greek fable tradition · Townsend translation Story
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SOME BOYS, playing near a pond, saw a number of Frogs in the water and began to pelt them with stones. They killed several of them, when one of the Frogs, lifting his head out of the water, cried out: “Pray stop, my boys: what is sport to you, is death to us.”
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Author / source Aesop (George Fyler Townsend translation)
Period Ancient Greek fable tradition · Townsend translation
Form Story
Languages English
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Three Hundred Aesop’s Fables · George Fyler Townsend translation · Fable 056: The Boys and the Frogs
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