SOME BOYS, playing near a pond, saw a number of Frogs in the water and began to pelt them with stones. They killed several of them, when one of the Frogs, lifting his head out of the water, cried out: “Pray stop, my boys: what is sport to you, is death to us.”
池のそばで遊んでいた少年たちが、水の中にたくさんのカエルがいるのを見て、石を投げつけはじめた。何匹かを殺したところで、一匹のカエルが水から頭を出して叫んだ。「お願いだからやめておくれ、ぼうやたち。きみたちには遊びでも、ぼくたちには死なんだよ」
