As “Slimy-Skin,” or “Polly-wog,”
Or likewise, “Uncle James,”
Or “Gape-a-grin,” or “Toad-gone-wrong,”
Or “Billy-Bandy-knees”;
The Frog is justly sensitive
To epithets like these.
No animal will more repay,
A treatment kind and fair,
At least, so lonely people say
Who keep a frog (and, by the way,