The Two Frogs

Thu October 25, 2012 by Kunal Bansal

TWO FROGS dwelt in the same pool. When the pool dried up under the summer's heat, they left it and set out together for another home. As they went along they chanced to pass a deep well, amply supplied with water, and when they saw it, one of the Frogs said to the other, 'Let us descend and make our abode in this well: it will furnish us with shelter and food.' The other replied with greater caution, 'But suppose the water should fail us. How can we get out again from so great a depth?'

had taken more care of them than of his own herd. One of them, turning about, said to him: 'That is the very reason why we are so cautious; for if you yesterday treated us better than the Goats you have had so long, it is plain also that if others came after us, you would in the same manner prefer them to ourselves.'

Old friends cannot with impunity be sacrificed for new ones.