To serve some benevolent gentleman—who will he choose but me!”
Respectfully the Frog heard all that his friend, Mr. Trout, did say:
“I thank you much for your counsel, sir; I’ll meditate it, good day.”
But he didn’t take Mr. Trout’s advice, and this is the reason why,—
“To know but one craft—one’s chance to succeed in life is lessened thereby;
So I think I’ll go on in the same old way my fathers did before,—
Their skill in swimming was none the less for the fact that they hopped on shore!”
At last it was time for Frog and Trout their lifework to begin,
So they eagerly scanned the papers o’er to see what “ads” were in.
One day they found among the “wants” a place with tip-top pay,