{"id":5109,"date":"2020-05-05T19:30:33","date_gmt":"2020-05-05T19:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/evaluate.ng\/?p=5109"},"modified":"2021-09-17T19:34:31","modified_gmt":"2021-09-17T19:34:31","slug":"the-frog-and-the-dragonfly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/evaluate.ng\/the-frog-and-the-dragonfly\/","title":{"rendered":"The Frog and the Dragonfly"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Once upon a time a dragonfly lived beside a lake high in the mountains. He flitted from bulrush to bulrush \u2013 and zipped after mosquitoes. He snapped them out of the air so quickly that no one could ever quite see what he was doing.<\/p>\n

One day, as he was flying across the water, his beautiful wings glistening like rainbows, he came across a frog.<\/p>\n

\u201cRibbit!\u201d said the frog. \u201cCome here, Mr. Dragonfly. I would like to have a better look at you. \u201dBut the dragonfly was clever. In fact, he was so clever that his eyes were made up of hundreds of eyes all put together on the top of his head. And each one of those eyes said to him: \u201cThat frog wants to eat me!\u201d<\/p>\n

So he landed on top of a bulrush where the frog could not get him, and said, \u201cYes, Mr. Frog, I am close enough for you. What do you want?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cRibbit! Ribbit!\u201d croaked the frog, \u201cI think you should come closer because my eyes are not very good.\u201d<\/p>\n

So the dragonfly came a little closer. He flitted to a flower floating on the water\u2014but still not close enough for the frog to grab him with his mouth.<\/p>\n

\u201cYes, Mr. Frog, what do you want?\u201d he asked. \u201cOh, Mr. Dragonfly,\u201d said the frog, \u201cI have an itch on the end of my nose and my legs aren\u2019t long enough to reach it. But your legs are scratchy\u2014they will be able to scratch my itchiness much better than I ever could.\u201d<\/p>\n

The dragonfly found this quite funny. He thought, \u201cThat frog wants to eat me! I am sure that frog wants to eat me!\u201d So he flew behind the frog and landed on his back.<\/p>\n

The frog could feel the dragonfly crawling on his back, but he could not turn around to grab him. \u201cOh, Mr. Dragonfly,\u201d he said, \u201cyou have to come closer to my nose. In fact, my lips are getting very itchy\u2014please come closer.\u201d<\/p>\n

So the dragonfly went and sat between the frog’s eyes. Now the frog’s eyes were looking into the dragonfly’s eyes, and the frog saw that the dragonfly had far, far more eyes than he had. So he said, \u201cOh, Mr. Dragonfly, you are surely much, much more wise than I am. You have so many eyes that you can see the whole world!\u201d<\/p>\n

And the dragonfly replied, \u201cOf course I can see the whole world! I have so many eyes that I am the wisest of all flies!\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWell,\u201d said the frog, \u201cI have a little tickle in the bottom of my throat\u2014what is happening there?\u201d And the dragonfly looked, and looked, and looked\u2026\u2026.and Snap! the frog ate him up.<\/p>\n

Credit:\u00a0from The Lost Lagoon\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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