[Illustration: THE FROG AND THE FOX.]
A Frog, leaping out of a lake, and taking the advantage of a rising
ground, made proclamation to all the beasts of the forest, that he was
an able physician, and, for curing all manner of distempers, would turn
his back to no person living. This discourse, uttered in a parcel of
hard, cramp words, which nobody understood, made the beasts admire his
learning, and give credit to every thing he said. At last the Fox, who
was present, with indignation asked him, how he could have the
impudence, with those thin lantern-jaws, that meagre pale phiz, and
blotched spotted body, to set up for one who was able to cure the
infirmities of others.