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The Mouse and the Frog

(Aesop’s Fables)

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　The mouse that always lived on the land made friends with the frog, but it was the beginning of his bad luck.

　Because, the frog thought of an evil trick to play on him,

　The frog tied the mouse's foot to his own.

　And they went out to fields of wheat happily to start with.

　Then, they came close to the edge of the pond.

　When they got there, the frog dragged the mouse into the bottom of the pond,

“Croak, croak, croak”

　The frog enjoyed the water amazingly.

　The poor mouse was suffocated by the water and soon drowned.

　But, he was tied to the foot of the frog.

　it repeated up and down in the pond with the frog.

　The hawk spotted it and swooped down to snatch it and flew off.

　Naturally, the frog, being still fastened to the leg of the mouse, was also carried off, and was eaten by the Hawk.


　Harm hatch, harm catch.

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