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Frog

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A frog and mouse agreed to settle by single combat their claims to a marsh; but, while they fought, a kite carried them both off. (Æsop: Fables, clxviii.)

“Old Æsop’s fable, where he told

What fate unto the mouse and frog befel.”

Cary: Dante, cxxiii.

Nie Frog is the Dutchman (not Frenchman) in Arbuthnot’s History of John Bull. Frogs are called “Dutch nightingales.”

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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