Narrative Text The Frog and the Ox
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The Frog and the Ox
“Oh Father,” said a little Frog to the big one sitting by the side of a pool, “I have seen such a terrible monster! It was as big as a mountain, with horns on its head, and a long tail, and it had hoofs divided in two.”
“Tush, child, tush,” said the old Frog, “that was only Farmer White’s Ox. It isn’t so big either; he may be a little bit taller than I, but I could easily make myself quite as broad; just you see.” So he blew himself out, and blew himself out, and blew himself out. “Was he as big as that?” asked he.
“Oh, much bigger than that,” said the young Frog.
Again the old one blew himself out, and asked the young one if the Ox was as big as that.
“Bigger, father, bigger,” was the reply.
So the Frog took a deep breath, and blew and blew and blew, and swelled and swelled and swelled. And then he said: “I’m sure the Ox is not as big as this. But at this moment he burst.
Self-conceit may lead to self-destruction
Taken from: http://www.aesops-fables.org.uk
The possibly new vocabulary for you:
1. frog: a small animal with smooth skin that uses its long back legs to jump from place to place. Frogs are amphibians (=they can live in water and on land) and they develop from tadpoles.
2. horns: one of the hard pointed parts that usually grow in a pair on the heads of some animals, for example cows or goats. The horns on a deer are called antlers.
3. hoofs: the horny part of the foot of an ungulate animal, especially a horse
4. tush: exclamation, expressing disapproval, impatience, or dismissal
5. ox: a large type of cow that is used on farms for pulling or carrying things
6. blew: the past tense ofblow, move creating an air current, if wind or air blows, the air moves,expel air through pursed lips
7. swelled: to make something larger than normal
8. burst: break open or apart suddenly and violently, especially as a result of an impact or internal pressure,
if something filled with air or water bursts, or if you burst it, it breaks suddenly because there is too much pressure inside it or against it
9. conceit: excessive pride in oneself
10. destruction: damage that is so severe that something stops existing or can never return to its normal state
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