A frog that watched a bullock grazing near resolved she'd try her best to match his girth and height. She was an envious frog. See how she puffs and swells and strains with all her might.

"Come, tell me, quickly dear, am I as big as he?" she asks a froggy friend.

"Oh no, my dear, not nearly."

"Now just you watch me stretch! Look close, and tell me clearly. Well, then! You see? I'm filling out?"

"It don't seem much to me."

"Well -- now?"

"Just like you were at first."

At last her wild attempts the bounds of nature passed, she never swelled to bullock's size, but strained so hard, she cracked and burst.

She's not the first, and not the last. No wonder, when the little shop man tries to match the splendor5 of the Provost's board. And Hodge the farmer's son spends money like a lord.