Although their noses pointed toward the places to which they wished to go, their eyes beheld the towns from which they had just come.
"Indeed, I shall travel no further!" the first frog exclaimed.
"Kioto is exactly like Tokio. I shall go home at once," he added.
"Tokio is only a copy of Kioto," said the other frog.
"It is not worth while to take the trouble to journey there!" he added disdainfully.
The two frogs bade each other a polite farewell, and each returned to his own home town.
To the end of their lives, the two frogs believed that Tokio and Kioto were really exactly alike.
Neither of the frogs ever again tried to see the world.
[THE MERCHANT'S CARAVAN]
Once there was a merchant who had fine silks and rugs to sell. He wished to send his goods to a country on the other side of the sandy desert.