"Here! Here's your pay, Mr. Frog!" they began to cry. And to their astonishment Mr. Frog began to laugh.
"I don't want any pay," he declared. "Will you all promise to wear your new clothes if I make them free?"
"Yes! Yes! Yes!" sounded on all sides.
"Then it's a bargain!" Ferdinand Frog shouted. And he leaped into the air and kicked his heels together three times.
After that he turned a back somersault, and then he rolled over and over until he landed with a great splash in the pond.
Deep down on the muddy bottom Mr. Frog laughed as if he could never stop. The Beavers on the bank could neither see nor hear him. And he knew there was no danger of their thinking him impolite, especially when he said:
"They don't even know that I've played a trick on them! And what a terrible sight they are! I've never seen any company that looked the least bit like them."