Be kind and tender to the Frog,
   And do not call him names,
As ‘Slimy skin,’ or ‘Polly-wog,’
   Or likewise ‘Ugly James,’
Or ‘Gape-a-grin,’ or ‘Toad-gone-wrong,’  Â
   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,  Â
They are extremely rare).
nice story sequence Isabel
Thanks, Jim.
Brilliant! Were you lucky or incredibly patient?
Laurna – Thanks! Patient of course. 🙂 Well, maybe more like lucky.
Great to see your photos. I saw these birds in South Africa – nice tickle of the memory.
Judith – There you go – I’d never thought about them being anywhere else!