"May you never quit that pond in all your lives, neither you nor your children!"
The story is that Jupiter heard her, and that these cruel people never came out of the water again. They grew very small; their green coats and white vests turned into skin, and their children wear to-day the same kind of suits their parents wore that day they waded into the pool. Though they have the whole pond to themselves, they croak away until their mouths have grown wide and ugly, as mockingly as did their forefathers at Latona.
"Come and drink!" But who wants to drink out of a frog pond?
Little heathen boys, who believed this story, used to pelt frogs with stones, and there are some boys now who act just like those foolish little heathen.
[THE BIRDS WITH ARROW FEATHERS]
Greek
There is an old story that tells how a man named Jason went on a long journey in search of a golden fleece.
He fitted up a great boat, and the bravest and strongest men of his country offered to go with him.
They had no ships like ours, in those days, and when the sails were not filled with wind, every man took an oar, and, with twenty oars or more on each side, the boat was made to move through the waves very swiftly.