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Aesop's Fables: Sir Roger L'Estrange (1692)

142. TWO FROGS THAT WANTED WATER (Perry 43)

Upon the drying of a Lake, two Frogs were forc’d to quit, and to seek for Water elsewhere. As they were upon the Search, they discover’d a very deep Well. Come, (says one to t’other) let us e’en go down here, without looking any further. You say well, says her Companion; but what if the Water should fail us here too? How shall we get out again?
THE MORAL. ‘Tis good Advice to look before we leap.


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