Let's Read Aesop's Fables - The Frogs and the Ox

The Frogs and the Ox.

An ox came down to a reedy pool to drink.  As he splashed heavily into the water,  

he crushed a young frog into the  mud. The old frog soon missed the  

little one and asked his brothers  and sisters what had become of him.

"A great big monster," said one of them, "stepped  on little brother with one of his huge feet."

"Big was he," said the old frog, puffing  herself up. "Was he as big as this?"

"Oh much bigger!" they cried.

The frog puffed up still more.

"He could not have been  bigger than this," she said.

But the little frogs all declared  that the monster was much much bigger,  

and the old frog kept puffing herself out  more and more until all at once she burst.

Every fable has a lesson, a  moral. What's the moral of  

this story? Write what you think it  is in the comments. Then check the  

video description where you'll also  find some helpful vocabulary notes.